compensate vs pair off

compensate

verb
  • To do (something good) after (something bad) happens 

  • To adjust or adapt to a change, often a harm or deprivation. 

  • To make up for; to do something in place of something else; to correct, satisfy; to reach an agreement such that the scales are literally or (metaphorically) balanced; to equalize or make even. 

  • To pay or reward someone in exchange for work done or some other consideration. 

pair off

verb
  • To join two people into a relationship. 

  • To separate into groups of two. 

How often have the words compensate and pair off occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )