repartee (n.)
- acknowledgment
- answer
- antiphon
- aphorism
- apothegm
- backchat
- badinage
- banter
- comeback
- conceit
- crack
- echo
- epigram
- gibe
- humor
- irony
- mot
- patter
- persiflage
- pleasantry
- quip
- raillery
- reaction
- receipt
- rejoinder
- replication
- reply
- rescript
- rescription
- respondence
- response
- retort
- return
- reverberation
- riposte
- sally
- sarcasm
- satire
- scintillation
- wisecrack
- wit
- witticism
- wordplay