penal+retribution

  • 11penalty — pen·al·ty / pen əl tē/ n pl ties 1: a punishment that is imposed on a wrongdoer by statute or judicial decision 2: a pecuniary sum that by agreement is to be paid by a party who fails to fulfill an obligation to another and that is punitive… …

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  • 12compensation — Synonyms and related words: alienation, amends, atonement, autism, autistic thinking, avoidance mechanism, base pay, blame shifting, blood money, comeuppance, composition, compromise, consideration, correction, damages, decompensation, defense… …

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  • 13correction — Synonyms and related words: admonishment, admonition, amendment, amends, appraisal, appraisement, approximation, assessment, assize, assizement, calculation, castigation, chastening, chastisement, chiding, compensation, computation, condign… …

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  • 14deserts — Synonyms and related words: castigation, chastening, chastisement, comeuppance, compensation, condign punishment, correction, desert, disciplinary measures, discipline, due reward, dues, ferule, infliction, judgment, judicial punishment, just… …

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  • 15discipline — Synonyms and related words: Spartanism, academic discipline, academic specialty, accommodate, accommodate with, accord, adapt, adapt to, adjust, adjust to, administer, administrate, administration, agree with, anality, aplomb, apple pie order,… …

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  • 16infliction — Synonyms and related words: affliction, bane, bitter cup, bitter draft, bitter draught, bitter pill, bother, bugbear, burden, burden of care, burdening, calamity, cankerworm of care, care, castigation, charging, chastening, chastisement, condign… …

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  • 17judgment — Synonyms and related words: acquittal, acumen, anathematizing, appraisal, appraisement, assessment, assumption, astuteness, attitude, belief, castigation, censure, chastening, chastisement, circumspection, circumspectness, climate of opinion,… …

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  • 18nemesis — Synonyms and related words: affliction, bane, bugbear, burden, calamity, castigation, chastening, chastisement, condign punishment, correction, crushing burden, curse, death, defensibility, deserts, destruction, disciplinary measures, discipline …

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  • 19pain — Synonyms and related words: abscess, ache, aching, afflict, affliction, aggrieve, agonize, agony, ague, ail, anemia, anguish, ankylosis, annoyance, anoxia, apnea, asphyxiation, assiduousness, asthma, ataxia, atrophy, backache, barb the dart, bite …

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  • 20payment — Synonyms and related words: bait, base pay, bribe, budgeting, carrot, castigation, charge, chastening, chastisement, compensation, condign punishment, contribution, correction, costing, costing out, debit, debiting, deficit spending, deserts,… …

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