riposte [verb]

● Come back

● Rejoin

● Repay

● Retort

● Return

● Answer

● Question

● Ask

● Bidding

● Catechize

● Enquiry

● Inquire

● Query

● Riposte

● Retort

● Rejoinder

● Comeback

● Return

● Repay

● Come back

● Rejoin

● Response

● Counterattack

● Retaliation

● Counter-attack

● Rebuttal

● Refutation

● Counterblast

● Denunciation

● Quip

● Bon mot

● Salvo

● Parry

● Witticism

● Volley

● Critique

● Counterargument

● Diatribe

● Gibe

● Fusillade

● Zinger

● Invective

● Missive

● Polemic

● Counterchallenge

● Rapier

● Counterpunch

● Barrage

● Remark

● Putdown

● Rebuke

● Denouncement

● Apologia

● Counterpoint

● Reply

● Peroration

● Jeremiad

● Panegyric

● Presumptuousness

● Controversialist

● Encomium

● Broadside

● Precis

● Jibes

● Rebuff

● Castigation

● Gesticulation

● Philippic

● Sallies

● Expostulation

● Demurral

● Slow handclap

● Soundbite

● Mea culpa

● Reproach

● Imprecation

● Barb

● Plaudit

● Counterexample

● Remonstration

● Impertinence

● Persiflage

● Fatuousness

● Chap

● Coruscating

● Epigrams

● Hyperboles

● Chappy

● Epitaph

● Rasper

● Dissembler

● Asperity

● Doggerel

● Unorthodoxy

● Summation

● Tu quoque

● Drollery

● Excoriation

● Sneer

● Disquisition

● Neologism

● Cri de coeur

● Manful

● Pithiness

● Gambit

● Harrumphing

● Interjection

● Sangfroid

● Contumely

● Shrift

● Rhapsodise

● Explanation

● Pillorying