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ameliorate
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    Investors should diversify to ameliorate risk.
    ameliorate = lessen (something bad)
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    There was, however, an ameliorating support system.  (source)
    ameliorating = tending to improve a bad situation
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    They did not belong to those generations of prostitutes created in novels, with great and generous hearts, dedicated, because of the horror of circumstance, to ameliorating, the luckless, barren life of men, taking money incidentally and humbly for their "understanding."  (source)
    ameliorating = improving
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    And thus Henchard found himself again on the precise standing which he had occupied a quarter of a century before. Externally there was nothing to hinder his making another start on the upward slope, and by his new lights achieving higher things than his soul in its half-formed state had been able to accomplish. But the ingenious machinery contrived by the Gods for reducing human possibilities of amelioration to a minimum—which arranges that wisdom to do shall come pari passu with the departure of zest for doing—stood in the way of all that.  (source)
    amelioration = improvement
    standard suffix: The suffix "-tion", converts a verb into a noun that denotes the action or result of the verb. Typically, there is a slight change in the ending of the root verb, as in action, education, and observation.
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    The accused have told me and their counsel have told me that the accused who were all leaders of the non-European population were motivated entirely by a desire to ameliorate these grievances.  (source)
    ameliorate = improve
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    Knowledge and virtues were increased and diffused; arts, sciences useful to man, ameliorating their condition, were improved, more than in any period.  (source)
    ameliorating = improving (something that is bad)
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    "How about those ameliorations," said I; "what were they?†  (source)
    ameliorations = improvements
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    Still, the peaceful quality of his surroundings gradually ameliorated his resentment, confusion, and stubborn anger.  (source)
    ameliorated = soothed or helped to make better
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    Honour to those indefatigable spirits who consecrate their vigils to the amelioration or to the alleviation of their kind!  (source)
    amelioration = improvement
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    Philosophy should be an energy; it should have for effort and effect to ameliorate the condition of man.  (source)
    ameliorate = improve
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    The work of ameliorating the conditions of life--the true civilizing process that makes life more and more secure--had gone steadily on to a climax.  (source)
    ameliorating = to improve
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    Still, it had its ameliorations.†  (source)
    ameliorations = improvements
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    Spring drew on: she was indeed already come; the frosts of winter had ceased; its snows were melted, its cutting winds ameliorated.  (source)
    ameliorated = improved (something that was bad)
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