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1. Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

Great Leap Forward, about-face, accommodation, adaptation, adjustment, advance, advancement, alteration, amendment, apostasy, ascent, bettering, betterment, boost, break, change, change of heart, changeableness, constructive change, continuity, conversion, defection, degeneration, degenerative change, deterioration, deviation, difference, discontinuity, divergence, diversification, diversion, diversity, enhancement, enrichment, eugenics, euthenics, fitting, flip-flop, furtherance, gradual change, headway, improvement, lift, melioration, mend, mending, mitigation, modification, modulation, overthrow, pickup, preferment, progress, progression, promotion, qualification, radical change, re-creation, realignment, recovery, redesign, reform, reformation, remaking, renewal, reshaping, restoration, restructuring, reversal, revival, revivification, revolution, rise, shift, sudden change, switch, total change, transition, turn, turnabout, upbeat, upheaval, uplift, upping, upswing, uptrend, upward mobility, variation, variety, violent change, worsening

Dictionary Results for amelioration:

1. WordNet® 3.0 (2006)

amelioration
    n 1: the act of relieving ills and changing for the better [syn:
         amelioration, melioration, betterment]

2. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

Amelioration \A*mel`io*ra"tion\, n. [Cf. F. am['e]lioration.]
   The act of ameliorating, or the state of being ameliorated;
   making or becoming better; improvement; melioration.
   "Amelioration of human affairs." --J. S. Mill.
   [1913 Webster]

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