N. retaliation, reprisal, retort, payback, counter-stroke, counter-blast, counterplot, counter-project, retribution, lex talionis, reciprocation, tit for tat, give and take, blow for blow, quid pro quo, a roland for an oliver, measure for measure, diamond cut diamond, the biter bit, a game at which two can play, reproof valiant, retort courteous, recrimination, revenge, compensation, reaction

V. retaliate, retort, turn upon, pay, pay off, pay back, pay in one's own coin, pay in the same coin, cap, reciprocate, turn the tables upon, return the compliment, give a quid pro quo, give as much as one takes, give as good as one gets, give and take, exchange fisticuffs, be quits, be even with, pay off old scores, serve one right, be hoist on one's own petard, throw a stone in one's own garden, catch a tartar

Adj. retaliating, retaliatory, retaliative, talionic

Adv. in retaliation, en revanche

Phr. mutato nomine de te fabula narratur, par pari refero, tu quoque, you're another, suo sibi gladio hunc jugulo, a beau jeu beau retour, litem, lite resolvit