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Bucket 52 — Repayment & Justice
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Best for: Law and IR (reparations, retaliation, deals). 4 words (2 repeats).
1. LEVY (v./n.) 🔁
- Urdu: ٹیکس لگانا، محصول · impose a tax; a tax · Syn: impose · Ant: exempt · Full entry → Bucket 22
2. REQUITE (v.)
- Urdu: بدلہ دینا (اچھا یا برا)، صلہ دینا
- Meaning: make an appropriate return for a favour or wrong; repay or avenge
- Syn: repay, reciprocate, return, avenge · Ant: ignore, neglect, forgive, overlook
- ✍️ Use: Loyalty that is never requited soon turns into resentment.
- 🧠 Hook: make things quite even again. "Unrequited love" = love not returned.
3. REDRESS (v./n.) 🔁
- Urdu: ازالہ، تلافی · set right a wrong; compensation · Syn: remedy · Ant: aggravate · Full entry → Bucket 33
4. QUID PRO QUO (n.)
- Urdu: لین دین، ایک کے بدلے دوسرا، سودا بازی
- Meaning: a favour or advantage given in return for something
- Syn: exchange, trade-off, reciprocity, bargain · Ant: gift, charity, one-sided favour
- ✍️ Use: Military aid during the Cold War was a quid pro quo for Pakistan's alliance with the US.
- 🧠 Hook: Latin, "something for something".