[responsivevoice] retribution [/responsivevoice] [ re-truh-byoo-shuhn ]
The word of the day is ‘retribution’.
The word is a noun, i.e., it is the main subject of a sentence.
No, the word is a noun. Therefore, it does not have a past form.
It means:
1. Payback for another’s action
2. Punishment inflicted on someone as vengeance for a wrong or criminal act.
3. Justice
4. Penalty
1. Hindi – Pratikaar
2. Spanish – Venganza
3. French – Châtiment
4. Mandarin – Bàoyìng
1. It was a day of vengeance, and awfully did retribution fall.
2. Employees asked not to be named, saying they feared retribution
3. When the storm came, she was frightened, and said, ‘It is a retribution.’
4. It is of no use for us to think to evade this law; neither is it a law wholly of retribution.
5. Since that time they have lived in deadly fear of retribution.
Some synonyms of today’s word are:
comeuppance, compensation, punishment,reckoning, redress, reprisal, retaliation, revenge, vengeance, counterblow, justice, recompense, repayment, requital, reward, satisfaction, avengement, avenging, eye for an eye, just desserts, revanche, what for
punishment, penalty, nemesis, fate, doom, one’s just deserts, due reward, just reward, wages, retributive justice, poetic justice, judgement, reckoning, reprisal, payback, tit for tat, reparation, restitution, remedy, comeback, atonement, amends, one’s comeuppance etc.
forgiveness, pardon, sympathy, clemency, excuse, leniency, remission, compassion, reconciliation, grace
Quotation:
A doctor, a judge, or a piece of paper shouldn’t have the power to tell someone who he or she is. We should all have the absolute and inalienable right to define ourselves, in our own terms and in our own languages, and to be able to express our identity and perspectives without fear of consequences and retribution.
Chelsea Manning
Social Example:
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