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Discuss Email this Feedback RSS/XML Permalink A.Word.A.Day--requite This week's theme: words better known in their negative forms. requite (ri-KWYT) verb tr. To repay, return for, avenge, or retaliate. [From Middle English requiten, from re- + quiten (to pay), a variant of quit.] Today's word in Visual Thesaurus. -Anu Garg (garg AT wordsmith.org) "(Charles) Schulz spread himself through an enlarging cast of characters-- Snoopy, the fantasizing dog who dances for sheer joy ... the Little Red-Haired Girl who never requites Charlie Brown's love, never even appears. (One of Schulz's early unrequited loves was a redhead.)" Henry Allen; The Cartoonist Who Drew From Experience; The Washington Post; Feb 14, 2000. X-Bonus Fine minds are seldom fine souls. -Jean Paul Richter, writer (1763-1825)

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