Adjust and Compensate

Adjust

Adjust verb - To change (something) so as to make it suitable for a new use or situation.

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Compensate and adjust are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Compensate" instead a verb "Adjust".

Compensate verb - To provide (someone) with a just payment for loss or injury.

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Adjust and compensate are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Adjust" instead a verb "Compensate".

power	adjust power	compensate power
life	adjust life	compensate life
amount	adjust amount	compensate amount
price	adjust price	compensate price
Other words: time, way, level, tactics, little, behavior, shots, lives.

Fortunately for Obi Wan, they forgot to adjust the rest of the map to compensate for gravity's pull.

Source: Conveniently Interrupted Document
You wouldn't get boosted EXP from other sources (such as quests), but you wouldn't 'lose' Rested EXP in those cases either (the "rest" bar would adjust itself upward to compensate).

Source: Experience Booster
After the 2016 Brexit vote, the satirical news website The Babylon Bee ran a story saying that the "leave" result had sent pre-millennial dispensationalist Christians scrambling to adjust their end-of-the-world predictions to compensate.

Source: The Great Politics Mess-Up

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