ameliorate

I learned this word when I was studying vocabulary for the SATs almost a decade ago. I try to use it in a sentence once a week just because it’s not a word that a lot of people know and it just tickles my fancy. Plus, it certainly sounds better than the wordy “make it better”….

Cassandra
Maine

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May 10th, 2011 | May 10th, 2011 | % | (10 votes, average: 8.7 out of 10)
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1 comment to ameliorate

• Julia

  October 25, 2011 at 8:03 pm

  I’ve never liked this word simply because I learned the French ‘ameliorer’ before i found out that there was an English cognate, and, after that, saying it in English felt unnatural and made-up like when you don’t know the word and just… ‘assumptuate’..? its ending instead.

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