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–noun 
1. requital (n.) according to 
(1) merits 
or 
(2) deserts, esp. for evil.  

2. something given or inflicted in such requital. 
3. Theology. (神學) the distribution of 
(1) rewards 
and 
(2) punishments in a future life.  

—Synonyms 
1, 2. retaliation, repayment, recompense. (酬報, 賠償) See revenge.

requital. Revenge, reprisal, retribution, vengeance suggest a punishment, or injury inflicted in return for one received. 

Revenge is the carrying out of a bitter desire to injure another for a wrong done to oneself or to those who are felt to be like oneself: to plot revenge. 

Reprisal
, formerly any act of retaliation, is used specifically in warfare for retaliation upon the enemy for its (usually unlawful) actions: 

to make a raid (突然襲擊) in reprisal for one 
by 
the [enemy].
 

Retribution suggests just or deserved punishment, often without personal motives, for some evil done: 

a [just] retribution 
for 
[wickedness]. 

Vengeance is usually wrathful, vindictive, furious revenge: implacable vengeance.

—Antonyms 
1, 2. pardon.


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Inglourious Basterds begins in German-occupied France, where Shosanna Dreyfus (Mélanie Laurent) witnesses the execution of her family at the hand of Nazi Colonel Hans Landa (Christoph Waltz). Shosanna [narrowly] escapes and flees to Paris, where she [forges] a new identity as the owner and operator of a cinema.

Elsewhere in Europe, Lieutenant Aldo Raine (Brad Pitt) organizes a group of 

Jewish [soldiers] 
to 
[engage] in targeted acts of [retribution].
 

Known to their enemy as "The Basterds," Raine’s squad joins German actress and undercover agent Bridget Von Hammersmark (Diane Kruger) on a mission to take down the leaders of The Third Reich. Fates [converge] under a cinema marquee, where Shosanna is [poised] to carry out a revenge plan of her own…


rebate
Rebate [offer] subject to change.
He rebated [five dollars] to me.
The manufacturer is rebating this [air conditioner]. 
requite
1. make [repayment] or [return] for. [remunerate] [reimburse]
2. make [retaliation], avenge  
That sibling break is exacer[b]ated by Accio's [un]requited [lust] for one of Manrico's disposable [girlfriends]. 
a prolonged [retaliatory] assault in which Maya transforms her pain into sadistic pleasure and sinks to Jared's level. 
This last point is illustrated in Maya’s [retaliation] against Jared.

relinguish (compelled)
cf. renounce (formally, voluntary)
abandon (further)
rebuke
reproach (faultfinding, shaming)
rebuke (formally, officially)
scold (at length, irritation)
reprove (milder)
Convulsion

facade [fuh-sahd]
mezzanine
parochial gentrification
tormentor 
marquee

shack
She discovers that Carl is shacked [up] with a beautiful 
barrack
All the callers-in want to do is barrack him [about] his support, started decades earlier, for Hindley's parole.
bunker
a [coal] bunker.  
to bunker an army's [defenses].  

cusp foil
cubicle
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