Conciliatory vs Ameliorate - What's the difference?
conciliatory | ameliorate |
willing to conciliate, or to make concessions
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To make better, to improve.
* Macaulay
As an adjective conciliatory
is willing to conciliate, or to make concessions.As a verb ameliorate is
to make better, to improve.conciliatory
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Adjective
(en adjective)Protests Widen as Brazilians Chide Leaders," New York Times (retrieved 21 June 2013):
- Shaken by the biggest challenge to their authority in years, Brazil’s leaders made conciliatory gestures on Tuesday to try to defuse the protests engulfing the nation’s cities.
Antonyms
* unconciliatoryDerived terms
* conciliatorinessameliorate
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Verb
(ameliorat)- They offered some compromises in an effort to ameliorate the situation.
- In every human being there is a wish to ameliorate his own condition.
