Flashcards: Latin Derivatives

ameliorate

 

to make better; improve

 

Things like recycling, mandatory industrial pollution control, and the VET provide solid evidence that American society is making a genuine effort to ameliorate the environment.

 

Related English words: amelioration (the process of improving; improvement), melioration (amelioration), ameliorative (improving), meliorate (ameliorate), ameliorator

 

Latin root word: melior, melius - better

 

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