reaction in English: What you do, say, or feel as an answer to something that happens. (noun)

Translation

What you do, say, or feel as an answer to something that happens.

Word origin

From Latin re, meaning back, and actio, meaning a doing; an action done back.

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A reaction is what you do straight after something happens.

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We say a reaction TO something, not a reaction OF something.

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Here a reaction is the way the body answers the medicine.

respond

To answer someone, or to do something because of what has happened.

answer

To say or write something back when someone asks you a question.

surprise

Something you did not expect, and the feeling that it gives you.

act

To do something, or to play a part in a film or a play.

feel

To have an emotion or a sense in your body, or to touch something to learn about it.

response

What you say or do after someone asks you something or something happens.

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