answer back

27 Moby Thesaurus words for "answer back":
      acknowledge, answer, come back, come back at, echo, flash back,
      give acknowledgment, give answer, lip, provoke, react, reecho,
      rejoin, reply, respond, retort, return, return answer,
      return for answer, reverberate, riposte, sass, sauce, say,
      say in reply, shoot back, talk back