See answerable on Wiktionary
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"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "capable of being answered or refuted; admitting a satisfactory answer",
"word": "responsable"
},
{
"code": "ro",
"lang": "Romanian",
"sense": "correspondent; conformable; hence, comparable",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "corespunzător"
}
],
"word": "answerable"
}
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