Sample Sentences for
compensate
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compensate as in:  she compensates with extra effort

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She uses several techniques to help compensate for her dyslexia.
compensate = make up
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    She's not as quick, but she more than compensates with extra effort.
    compensates = makes up for it
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    The pay isn't great, but the job offers other compensations.
    compensations = benefits (in this case, things that make up for the low pay)
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    Yeah, people keep saying my other senses will improve to compensate, but CLEARLY NOT YET.  (source)
    compensate = make up for something missing
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    You are all trying to compensate, to get your bodies lower because the height scares you.  (source)
    compensate = adjust (to make up for something)
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    …Phineas in exaltation, balancing on one foot on the prow of a canoe like a river god, his raised arms invoking the air to support him, face transfigured, body a complex set of balances and compensations, each muscle aligned in perfection with all the others to maintain this supreme fantasy of achievement, his skin glowing from immersions, his whole body hanging between river and sky as though he had transcended gravity and might by gently pushing upward with his foot glide a little way higher and remain suspended in space, encompassing all the glory of the summer and offering it to the sky.  (source)
    compensations = adjustments to make up for other things
    standard suffix: The suffix "-tions", converts a verb into a plural noun that denotes results of the verb. Typically, there is a slight change in the ending of the root verb, as in actions, illustrations, and observations.
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    The fact that I had a permanent fiancé was little compensation for his absence:  (source)
    compensation = something that makes up for something else
    standard suffix: The suffix "-tion", converts a verb into a noun that denotes the action or result of the verb. Typically, there is a slight change in the ending of the root verb, as in action, education, and observation.
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    They had had a hard year, and after the sale of part of the hay and corn, the stores of food for the winter were none too plentiful, but the windmill compensated for everything.  (source)
    compensated = made up for
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    He acts so tough that he's probably afraid of marshmallows and really bright sunrises or something. Overcompensating.  (source)
    Overcompensating = excessively trying to make up for a shortcoming
    standard prefix: The prefix "over-" in overcompensating means excessively. This is the same pattern as seen in words like overconfident, overemphasize, and overstimulate.
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    The front fender sloped toward the rear wheels in a long arc while a compensating ridge developed into a tail fin.  (source)
    compensating = adjusting (for the long arc)
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    He pacified his conscience by promising himself a compensatingly harder self-discipline, purifications the more complete and thorough.  (source)
    compensatingly = to make up for something else
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    PROCTOR, with draining anger—his curiosity is draining it: And what of these proceedings here? When will you proceed to keep this house, as you are paid nine pound a year to do—and my wife not wholly well? As though to compensate, Mary Warren goes to Elizabeth with a small rag doll. MARY WARREN: I made a gift for you today, Goody Proctor.  (source)
    compensate = make up for something else
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    The life of a soldier was not without certain compensations.†  (source)
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    The government also agreed to pay compensation to the families of victims.  (source)
    compensation = something that make amends for something else
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compensate as in:  she is generously compensated

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    They sued for compensation for her injury in the accident.
    compensation = payment
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    I've already asked Father to compensate him for the damages, especially since Dussel only gets one bar of inferior wartime soap a month.  (source)
    compensate = pay (to make up for)
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    I know you were all promised compensation for your participation in the Selection.  (source)
    compensation = payment
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    He'll also bring them game ... and will probably not ask for compensation, but they should thank him with some kind of trade, like milk or medicine.  (source)
    compensation = payment
    standard suffix: The suffix "-tion", converts a verb into a noun that denotes the action or result of the verb. Typically, there is a slight change in the ending of the root verb, as in action, education, and observation.
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    In the extremely rare instances in which the Japanese compensated the POWs for their work, payment amounted to almost nothing, equivalent to a few pennies a week.  (source)
    compensated = paid
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    They had been compensating for it by aiming our rockets at a small angle against whatever direction the wind was coming.†  (source)
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    Daniel murmurs something compensatory, trying to redirect, but Rivera is just looking at Cedric, like he's trying to dig inside him with his eyes.†  (source)
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    "God compensates perfectly," he said to his companion.†  (source)
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    I struggled to stay upright and overcompensated to the right, but I fell regardless of my efforts.†  (source)
    standard prefix: The prefix "over-" in overcompensated means excessively. This is the same pattern as seen in words like overconfident, overemphasize, and overstimulate.
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    Various policy analysts, scientists, philosophers, and ethicists have suggested ways to compensate tissue donors: creating a Social Securitylike system in which each donation entitles a person to increasing levels of compensation; giving donors tax write-offs; developing a royalty system like the one used for compensating musicians when their songs are played on the radio; requiring that a percentage of profits from tissue research go to scientific or medical charities, or that all of…  (source)
    compensate = pay
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    Then I adjusted the bullet drop compensator on my scope to modify for the effect of gravity on the bullet before it reached its target 300 yards away.†  (source)
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    Now I think I was overcompensating, straining to be heard and applauded.†  (source)
    standard prefix: The prefix "over-" in overcompensating means excessively. This is the same pattern as seen in words like overconfident, overemphasize, and overstimulate.
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    The moral and economic evil done by trying to get other people's money without working for it (and this is the essence of gambling) is not only enormous but uncompensated.†  (source)
    standard prefix: The prefix "un-" in uncompensated means not and reverses the meaning of compensated. This is the same pattern you see in words like unhappy, unknown, and unlucky.
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