Revenge
Part of speech: verb
Definition: To take one's revenge (on or upon) someone. To take revenge for (a particular harmful action), to avenge. To take vengeance.
Part of speech: noun
Definition: Any form of personal retaliatory action against an individual, institution, or group for some perceived harm or injustice.
Example sentence: Survival was my only hope, success my only revenge.
Retaliation
Part of speech: noun
Definition: Violent response to an act of harm or perceived injustice.An act of violent response
Example sentence: Obviously this is the world descending into worse and worse standards of targeting civilians both in state violence in Iraq, Gaza and so on and the terrorist retaliation.