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Learn “Ameliorate”

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Ameliorate

verb/uh-MEE-lee-uh-rayt/

Meaning

make (something bad or unsatisfactory) better.

In context

The reform did much to ameliorate living standards.

Remember it

aMELIORate hides 'melior' — Latin for better — so to ameliorate is to make things better.

Use it well

Formal; use for easing bad situations — 'ameliorate the problem or conditions' — not happy ones.