What word to use to mean "respond" in the sentence below:

"You should respond to her confession" ー彼女の告白にお **返事** してください

Most accurate I can think of is **返事** but it still feels wrong
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How to say "respond" in this sentence
You can use 返事 and 返答. 答える is another possibility but it sometimes has a
nuance of _accepting_ , which you may not want. You can say 彼女の告白に返事をするべきです
for example. Note that ～してください means "please do ～", which is different from
"should ～".
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"Respond" is a little vague here. You can respond to a confession of murder by
calling the cops. If the situation is that a woman has confessed her love, and
the receiver of said confession is being exhorted to give a spoken answer,
then in reality, of course, Japanese people would probably say something like
彼女が告白したんだからなんか言えよ。
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