Most men are willing to receive what is due them.  They might even be persuaded to receive a bit more.  Why should they not be as scrupulous to receive what they are entitled to in the medium of language as of money?  Sometimes they are.  Offering to pay some people instead of to compensate them is like offering a tip to the wrong person.  Why?  Because there is a social implication in compensate which is not contained in pay.  To pay is simply to give what is due, as in wages (or even salary), price, or the like.  To compensate is to make suitable return for service rendered.  Does compensate not sound the more soothing?  But save in exceptional circumstances the downrightness of pay has no hint of vulgarity.  To recompense is to make a return, especially if it is not monetary, for work, pains, trouble, losses, or suffering; or some quality or blessing (as affection or happiness) may be said to recompense one.  To remunerate is to disburse a large amount to a person, or to give it to him as a reward, or otherwise to make him a return in a matter of importance.  To requite is to put a just value upon one’s work, deeds, or merit and to make payment strictly in accordance with his deserts.  To reimburse is to make good what some one has spent for you.  To indemnify is to secure some one against loss or to make restitution for damages he has sustained.

Assignment for further discrimination:  disburse, reward.

Sentences:  Let us ____ him for his efforts in our behalf. 
Let us ____ their kindness with kindness, their cruelty with cruelty. 
To ____ them adequately for such patriotic sacrifices is of course
impossible.  The government demanded that it be ____ for the injury to its
citizens.  I shall ____ you for all sums expended.  He ____ the bill by a
check.  The success of her children ____ a mother for her sacrifices for
them.  Wages are ____ to laborers; salaries are ____ to judges.

Proud, arrogant, presumptuous, haughty, supercilious, insolent, insulting.

Most persons feel in their hearts that their claims and merits are superior to those of other people.  But they do not like for you, in describing them, to imply that their self-appraisal is too high.  “Comparisons are odious,” and therefore in comparing their fancied with their real selves you must choose your terms carefully.  Of the words that suggest an exaggerated estimate of one’s merits or privileges the broadest, as well as the least offensive, is proud.  In fact this word need not carry the idea of exaggeration.  A proud man may but hold himself in justifiable esteem, or wish to measure up to the demands of his station or to the expectations of others.  On the other hand, he may overvalue his attainments, possessions, connections, etc.  To say that the man is arrogant means that he combines with pride a