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1. self-defense
2. assertion
3. retaliation
4. justification
5. lex talionis
6. revanchist
7. comeuppance
8. correction
9. disciplinary
10. nemesis
11. obtestation
12. poetic justice
13. requital
14. retaliative
15. retribution
16. revenge
17. revengeance
18. revenging
19. talion
20. vindicative
21. vindicator
22. vindicatory
23. accusation
24. avenging
25. condoner
26. exceptor
27. imposition
28. penalised
29. penalize
30. piacular
31. propitiator
32. punishable
33. punishment
34. reintegrative shaming
35. reprisal
36. retributive
37. revanche
38. sanction
39. suspension

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