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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | correction, improvement |
| Synonyms: | alteration, amelioration, betterment, change, correction, enhancement, improvement, mending, modification, rectification, reform, reformation, remedy, repair, revision |
| Antonyms: | worsening |
| Main Entry: | act |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | legislative document |
| Synonyms: | amendment, announcement, bill, clause, code, commitment, decree, edict, enactment, judgment, law, measure, order, ordinance, resolution, statute, subpoena, summons, verdict, warrant, writ |
| Notes: | an act is the main dramatic unit and a scene is a division within an act |
| Main Entry: | alteration |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | change |
| Synonyms: | about-face, accommodation, adaptation, adjustment, amendment, conversion, correction, difference, diversification, exchange, fixing, flip-flop, metamorphosis, mid-course correction, modification, mutation, reformation, remodeling, reshaping, revision, shift, switch, switch-over, transformation, transmutation, turn, variance, variation |
| Main Entry: | correction |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | adjustment; fixing |
| Synonyms: | alteration, amelioration, amending, amendment, changing, editing, emendation, improvement, indemnification, mending, modification, rectification, redress, reexamination, remodeling, repair, reparation, rereading, revisal, revising, righting |
| Antonyms: | blunder, goof, mistake |
| Main Entry: | improvement |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | bettering; something bettered |
| Synonyms: | advance, advancement, amelioration, amendment, augmentation, betterment, change, civilization, correction, cultivation, development, elevation, enhancement, enrichment, furtherance, gain, growth, increase, meliorism, preferment, progress, progression, promotion, rally, reclamation, recovery, rectification, reformation, regeneration, renovation, revision, rise, upbeat, upgrade, upswing |
| Antonyms: | damage, decline, decrease, diminishing, harm, hurt, injury, weakening, worsening |
| Main Entry: | redress |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | help, compensation |
| Synonyms: | aid, amendment, amends, assistance, atonement, balancing, change, conciliation, correction, cure, ease, indemnity, justice, offsetting, payment, quittance, recompense, rectification, reestablishment, reformation, rehabilitation, relief, remedy, remission, remodeling, renewal, repair, reparation, reprisal, requital, restitution, retribution, return, revision, reward, reworking, satisfaction, vengeance |
| Antonyms: | hurt, injury |
| Main Entry: | revision |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | change; rewriting |
| Synonyms: | afterlight, alteration, amendment, correction, editing, emendation, homework, improvement, modification, overhauling, polish, recension, reconsideration, rectification, rectifying, redaction, redraft, reediting, reexamination, rescript, restyling, retrospect, retrospection, review, revisal, revise, updating |
| Main Entry: | emendation |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | improvement |
| Synonyms: | amelioration, amendment, betterment, correction |
| Main Entry: | reformation |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | the act of reforming |
| Synonyms: | alteration, amendment, change, correction, improvement, realignment, rearrangement, reconstruction, reform, rehabilitation, renewal, renovation, reorganization, reworking, shifting, transformation |
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