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Amendment

An alteration or change for the better; correction of a fault or of faults; reformation of life by quitting vices.

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Correction 76% connected

The act of correcting, or making that right which was wrong; change for the better; amendment; rectification, as of an erroneous statement.

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Rectification 76% connected

The act or operation of rectifying; as, the rectification of an error; the rectification of spirits.

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Statement 76% connected

The act of stating, reciting, or presenting, orally or in paper; as, to interrupt a speaker in the statement of his case.

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Amend 74% connected

To change or modify in any way for the better

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Amend 74% connected

To change or modify in any way for the better

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Avoidance noun · 78% connection

A dismissing or a quitting; removal; withdrawal.

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Azoic adjective · 78% connection

Destitute of any vestige of organic life, or at least of animal life; anterior to the existence of animal life; formed when there was…

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Better adjective · 78% connection

Having good qualities in a greater degree than another; as, a better man; a better physician; a better house; a better air.

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Captious adjective · 78% connection

Apt to catch at faults; disposed to find fault or to cavil; eager to object; difficult to please.

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Change verb · 78% connection

Any variation or alteration; a passing from one state or form to another; as, a change of countenance; a change of habits or principle…

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Changeable adjective · 78% connection

Capable of change; subject to alteration; mutable; variable; fickle; inconstant; as, a changeable humor.

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Commutation noun · 78% connection

A passing from one state to another; change; alteration; mutation.

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Conversion noun · 78% connection

A spiritual and moral change attending a change of belief with conviction; a change of heart; a change from the service of the world t…

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Correctional adjective · 78% connection

Tending to, or intended for, correction; used for correction; as, a correctional institution.

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Countermarch noun · 78% connection

A change of measures; alteration of conduct.

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Demerit noun · 78% connection

the quality of being inadequate or falling short of perfection; "they discussed the merits and demerits of her novel"; "he knew his ow…

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Desertion noun · 78% connection

The act of deserting or forsaking; abandonment of a service, a cause, a party, a friend, or any post of duty; the quitting of one's du…

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Discipline noun · 78% connection

Correction; chastisement; punishment inflicted by way of correction and training.

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Emend verb · 78% connection

To purge of faults; to make better; to correct; esp., to make corrections in (a literary work); to alter for the better by textual cri…

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Emendation noun · 78% connection

Alteration by editorial criticism, as of a text so as to give a better reading; removal of errors or corruptions from a document; as,…

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Exit noun · 78% connection

Any departure; the act of quitting the stage of action or of life; death; as, to make one's exit.

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Face verb · 78% connection

To cover with better, or better appearing, material than the mass consists of, for purpose of deception, as the surface of a box of te…

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Fault noun · 78% connection

the quality of being inadequate or falling short of perfection; "they discussed the merits and demerits of her novel"; "he knew his ow…

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