Rather than retaliate against the competing firm's price cut, the company chose to invest in product innovation to maintain its market share.
该公司没有对竞争对手的降价进行报复，而是选择投资产品创新以维持其市场份额。
Which choice best defines “retaliate”?
C — Take revenge. “retaliate” means take revenge.
Which word means “take revenge”?
D — retaliate. “retaliate” means take revenge.
retaliate — take revenge. In Chinese: 报复，反击.
retaliate is pronounced /rɪˈtælieɪt/.
Rather than retaliate against the competing firm's price cut, the company chose to invest in product innovation to maintain its market share. (该公司没有对竞争对手的降价进行报复，而是选择投资产品创新以维持其市场份额。)
avenge, repay, counterattack — all close in meaning to retaliate (take revenge).
forgive, tolerate — each the opposite of retaliate (take revenge).
Yes. retaliate is on the SAT Prep Basic list — the everyday academic words the SAT assumes you already have. The Digital SAT does not test vocabulary in isolation; words like this one are tested through Words in Context questions, where you choose the word that completes a passage most logically and precisely.
re(opposite or against)+tali(equal)+ate(verb).