answer vs impose

answer

verb
  • To be or act in compliance with, in fulfillment or satisfaction of, as an order, obligation, or demand. 

  • To speak in defence against; to reply to in defence. 

  • To be accountable or responsible; to make amends. 

  • To be opposite, or to act in opposition. 

  • To respond to a call by someone at a door or telephone, or other similar piece of equipment. 

  • To correspond to; to be in harmony with; to be in agreement with. 

  • To suit a need or purpose satisfactorily. 

  • To be or act in conformity, or by way of accommodation, correspondence, relation, or proportion; to conform; to correspond; to suit; usually with to. 

  • To make a reply or response to. 

  • To file a document in response to a complaint. 

  • To respond to satisfactorily; to meet successfully by way of explanation, argument, or justification; to refute. 

noun
  • A solution to a problem. 

  • A response or reply; something said or done in reaction to a statement or question. 

  • A document filed in response to a complaint, responding to each point raised in the complaint and raising counterpoints. 

impose

verb
  • to enforce: compel to behave in a certain way 

  • To practice a trick or deception (on or upon). 

  • To arrange in proper order on a table of stone or metal and lock up in a chase for printing; said of columns or pages of type, forms, etc. 

  • To establish or apply by authority. 

  • To lay on, as the hands, in the religious rites of confirmation and ordination. 

  • to be an inconvenience (on or upon) 

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