Kick
Kick verb - To express dissatisfaction, pain, or resentment usually tiresomely.
React
React verb - To act or behave in response (as to a stimulus or influence).
Common collocations
Both words in one sentence
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In the tutorial level, Ser Manuel is surprisingly interactive: When Manuel instructs you to kick some tables around, he will react if you instead break the other props scattered throughout the room.
Source: Video Game / Enter the Gungeon -
Beavis and Butt-Head react like this whenever they find a really kick-ass video, usually a heavy metal one, like Guns N' Roses' "Paradise City" and Pantera's "I'm Broken".
Source: Big "YES!" -
Director (a Jerry Lewis Expy) got a kick out of the very things that annoyed most people, and they didn't know how to react.
Source: Screwy Squirrel
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