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You use fair enough when you want to say that a statement, decision, or action seems reasonable to a certain extent, but that perhaps there is more to be said or done.

Answer, which can be a noun or a verb, comes from the Old English for swear, and the word originally meant an official, sworn response to a legal charge. We don't have to be sworn in when we answer a question, however, we just need to reply. Answer also means "solution." Is the answer to poverty better education?

A debate or discussion of opposing opinions; (generally) strife.

It's credible, but like any community edited resource it has gaps and inaccuracies. I think different dictionaries excel at different aspects, so usually I end up using thefreedictionary.com which is a consolidator.

to move or make loose someone or something that is caught or held somewhere: Both men were freed from the wreckage after a four-hour operation. In vain he tried to free the rope around his hands. SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases. Liberating, relaxing and releasing.

costing nothing. “free admission” synonyms: complimentary, costless, gratis, gratuitous unpaid.

What does Rent Free mean? Rent free refers to when you obsessively think about someone or something, usually when it's random or unimportant. The idea is that the thought lives in your head, rent free, with no real reason to be there. “The song from that ad has been living rent free in my head all week.”

So it's clear that the "w" comes in from the root "swarjan" to swear - so answer and swear share a common source. It's just that the "w" is now silent.

What is the medieval word for answer? ›

From Middle English answere, andsware, from Old English andswaru (“answer”), from and- (“against”) +‎ -swaru (“affirmation”), (from Proto-Indo-European *h₂ent- (“front, forehead”) and Old English swerian (“to swear”), from Proto-Indo-European *swer-), suggesting an original meaning of "a sworn statement rebutting a ...

(obsolete) Simple past tense and past participle of answer.

Deserving of trust, reliable.

The relationship resulting from affiliating one thing with another. A club, society or umbrella organisation so formed, especially a trade union.

reputation (countable and uncountable, plural reputations) What somebody or something is known for. synonyms ▲quotations ▼ Synonyms: name, (archaic) savour.

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