retaliate vs sass

retaliate

verb
  • To do something harmful or negative to get revenge for some harm; to fight back or respond in kind to an injury or affront. 

  • To repay or requite by an act of the same kind. 

sass

verb
  • To talk, to talk back. 

  • To speak insolently to. 

noun
  • Backtalk, cheek, sarcasm. 

How often have the words retaliate and sass occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )