Reply and React

noun

• A statement (either spoken or written) that is made to reply to a question or request or criticism or accusation.
  • usage: "I waited several days for his answer"; "he wrote replies to several of his critics"
  • synonyms: answer, response
• The speech act of continuing a conversational exchange.
  • usage: "he growled his reply"
  • synonyms: response

verb

• React verbally.
  • usage: "She didn't want to answer"; "answer the question"; "We answered that we would accept the invitation"
  • synonyms: answer, respond

• (v.i.) To answer a defendant's plea.
• (v.i.) That which is said, written or done in answer to what is said, written or done by another; an answer; a response.
• (v.i.) Figuratively, to do something in return for something done; as, to reply to a signal; to reply to the fire of a battery.
• (v.t.) To return for an answer.
• (v.i.) To make a return in words or writing; to respond; to answer.

verb

• Show a response or a reaction to something.
  • synonyms: respond
• Act against or in opposition to.
  • usage: "She reacts negatively to everything I say"
  • synonyms: oppose
• Undergo a chemical reaction; react with another substance under certain conditions.
  • usage: "The hydrogen and the oxygen react"

• (v.t.) To act or perform a second time; to do over again; as, to react a play; the same scenes were reacted at Rome.
• (v.i.) To act upon each other; to exercise a reciprocal or a reverse effect, as two or more chemical agents; to act in opposition.
• (v.i.) To return an impulse or impression; to resist the action of another body by an opposite force; as, every body reacts on the body that impels it from its natural state.