reply (n.)
- acknowledgment
- advocate
- answer
- antiphon
- approach
- argument
- backchat
- billet
- boomerang
- champion
- chit
- comeback
- commerce
- communication
- communion
- congress
- connection
- contact
- conversation
- converse
- correspondence
- counter
- counterblast
- counterblow
- dealing
- dealings
- defense
- demurrer
- denial
- dispatch
- echo
- epistle
- exception
- exchange
- favor
- give-and-take
- information
- interaction
- interchange
- intercommunication
- intercommunion
- intercourse
- interplay
- letter
- line
- message
- missive
- note
- objection
- plea
- pleading
- question
- raise
- reach
- reaction
- rebuttal
- receipt
- reciprocation
- recoil
- reflection
- reflex
- reflux
- refutation
- rejoinder
- repartee
- replication
- rescript
- rescription
- respondence
- response
- retaliation
- retort
- return
- reverberation
- revulsion
- riposte
- rise
- say
- speaking
- speech
- support
- talking
- telepathy
- touch
- traffic
- truck
reply (v.)
- acknowledge
- advocate
- answer
- approach
- assert
- billet
- boomerang
- champion
- contact
- converse
- correspond
- counter
- defend
- dispatch
- echo
- espouse
- exception
- exchange
- favor
- interchange
- intercourse
- interrogate
- letter
- line
- maintain
- message
- note
- question
- raise
- reach
- react
- rebut
- receipt
- recoil
- reecho
- refute
- rejoin
- respond
- retort
- return
- reverberate
- riposte
- rise
- say
- support
- sustain
- touch
- traffic
- truck
- uphold
The Retort Courteous; . . . the Quip Modest; . . . the Reply Churlish; . . . the Reproof Valiant; . . . the Countercheck Quarrelsome; . . . the Lie with Circumstance; . . . the Lie Direct.
If any, speak; for him have I offended. I pause for a reply.
Some one had blunder'd:
Theirs not to make reply,
Theirs not to reason why,
Theirs but to do and die.
