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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | improvement |
| Synonyms: | advance, advancement, amelioration, amendment, augmentation, betterment, change, civilization, correction, cultivation, development, elevation, enhancement, enrichment, furtherance, gain, growth, increase, preferment, progress, progression, promotion, rally, reclamation, recovery, rectification, reformation, regeneration, renovation, revision, rise, upbeat, upgrade, upswing |
| Main Entry: | pedagogy |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | education |
| Synonyms: | apprenticeship, background, book learning, brainwashing, breeding, catechism, civilization, coaching, cultivation, culture, direction, discipline, drilling, edification, enlightenment, erudition, finish, guidance, improvement, inculcation, indoctrination, information, instruction, learnedness, learning, literacy, nurture, pedagogics, preparation, propagandism, proselytism, reading, rearing, refinement, scholarship, schooling, science, study, teaching, training, tuition, tutelage, tutoring |
| Main Entry: | schooling |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | education |
| Synonyms: | apprenticeship, background, book learning, brainwashing, breeding, catechism, civilization, coaching, cultivation, culture, direction, discipline, drilling, edification, enlightenment, erudition, finish, guidance, improvement, inculcation, indoctrination, information, instruction, learnedness, learning, literacy, nurture, pedagogics, pedagogy, preparation, propagandism, proselytism, reading, rearing, refinement, scholarship, science, study, teaching, training, tuition, tutelage, tutoring |
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| Main Entry: | culture |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
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ambosexual, androgynous, anthropoid, antiethnic, civic, congeneric, consanguine, cosmopolitan, deivirile, ecdemic, epicene, ethnic, ethnocentric, ethnological, genealogical, gynaecocoenic, historic, historical, homophylic, human, individual, infra, mortal, national, neanthropic, nonliterate, paleoanthropic, personal, pithecological, polyphyletic, preliterate, primitive, prosopoeic, public, simian, social, sociocultural, sociological, xanthous
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| Main Entry: | education |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
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abecedarian, abiological, academic, accredited, acroatic, apt, basal, brought up at the feet of Gamaliel, chrestomathic, coeducational, collegiate, communicatory, decanal, didactic, didascalic, disciplinal, docile, doctrinal, donnish, educable, educational, educative, emeritus, expository, extracurricular, extramural, fledged, heuristic, in leading strings, inkhorn, instructive, intercollegiate, interscholastic, intramural, learned, misteaching, nod, polytechnic, postdoctoral, postgraduate, predoctoral, professorial, question, scholarly, scholastic, school, self, studious, tardy, taught, teachable, teaching, tenured, unedifying
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| Main Entry: | maturity |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
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adolescent, adult, adultoid, beardless, brephic, budding, callow, ephebic, full, grown up, hebrephrenic, impuberal, in one's prime, in one's teens, junior, juvenile, manly, marriageable, matronly, mature, middle, neanic, neotelnic, neotenic, nubile, of age, of full age, of ripe age, out of one's teens, pedomorphic, prepubescent, pubescent, sappy, seasoned, underage, virile, viripotent, womanly, yeanling, young, youngster, youthful
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| Main Entry: | society |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
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a la mode, admissible in society, admitted in society, anthropocentric, antinuke, antisocial, apolitical, biracial, blue, civil, classless, conventional, courtly, dashing, de rigeur, designer, en grand tenue, fashionable, fast, focative, genteel, gentlemanlike, gentlemanly, hard, homogeneous, horse, in full dress, indigenous, industrial, janty, jaunty, ladylike, life, lonely, modish, newfangled, nomothetic, old, polite, politically correct, presentable, pro, pronuclear, pschutt, psychosocial, refined, right, ritualistic, rural, semple, sexist, stylish, substandard, technetronic, thoroughbred, ticky, un, underdeveloped, underprivileged, unembarrassed, unfashionable, universal, unskilled, up, well, well
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| Concept: | Improvement. |
| Category: | 2. Subservience to ends; degree of subservience |
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-nouns
improvement; amelioration, melioration; betterment; mend, amendment, emendation; mending; advancement; advance (progress); ascent; promotion, preferment; elevation; increase; cultivation, civilization; culture, march of intellect; menticulture; race-culture, eugenics., reform, reformation; revision, radical reform; second thoughts, correction, limoe labor, refinement, elaboration; purification; oxidation; repair (restoration); recovery., revise, new edition., reformer, radical.
-verbs
improve; be better, become better, get better; mend, amend., advance (progress); ascend; increase; fructify, ripen, mature; pick up, come about, rally, take a favorable turn; turn over a new leaf, turn the corner; raise one's head, sow one's wild oats; recover., be better, be improved by; turn to right account, turn to good account, turn to best account; profit by, reap the benefit of; make good use of, make capital out of; place to good account., render better, improve, mend, amend, better; ameliorate, meliorate; correct; decrassify., improve upon, refine upon; rectify; enrich, mellow, elaborate, fatten., promote, cultivate, advance, forward, enhance; bring forward, bring on; foster; invigorate (strengthen)., touch up, rub up, brush up, furbish up, bolster up, vamp up, brighten up, warm up; polish, cook, make the most of, set off to advantage; prune; repair (restore); put in order (arrange)., review, revise; make corrections, make improvements; doctor (remedy); purify., relieve, refresh, infuse new blood into, recruit., reform, remodel, reorganize; new model., view in a new light, think better of, appeal from Philip, drunk to Philip sober., palliate, mitigate; lessen an evil.
-adjectives
improving; progressive, improved; better, better off, better for; all the better for; better advised., reformatory, emendatory; reparatory (restorative); remedial., corrigible, improvable; accultural.
-adverbs
on consideration, on reconsideration, on second thoughts, on better advice; ad melius inquirendum.
-phrases
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| Antonyms: | deterioration |
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