Provocation
Provocation noun - Something that arouses a strong response from another.
Response and provocation are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Response" instead a noun "Provocation".
Response
Response noun - Action or behavior that is done in return to other action or behavior.
Provocation and response are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Provocation" instead a noun "Response".
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- One day at school, Ash, a very reluctant male-to-female Gender Bender, punches a long-standing male rival in response to extreme — but purely verbal — provocation.
- This troper imagines that pretty much everyone has some childhood memory of responding to an attack or provocation and some authority figure intervenes and blames you since he only saw your response, not the original attack or provocation (and doesn't ask).
Source: Made Out to Be a Jerkass -
Turned Up to Eleven during the "Hallelujah Night", the first night of Guadalcanal landings, when the password given was Hallelujah, resulting in most Marines on beaches shouting Hallelujah in response to a slightest provocation during the whole night.
Source: Japanese Ranguage
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