Compensate and Validate

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

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Validate is an antonym for compensate in offset topic.

Validate verb - To give evidence or testimony to the truth or factualness of.

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Compensate is an antonym for validate.

love	compensate love	validate love
life	compensate life	validate life
people	compensate people	validate people
lack	compensate lack	validate lack
Other words: status, death, fact, lives.

Calvin: Dad, are you vicariously living through me in the hope that my accomplishments will validate your mediocre life and in some way compensate for all the opportunities you botched?

Source: Vicariously Ambitious

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