Word Meanings - BETTERMENT - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A making better; amendment; improvement.

• Make-believe
  A feigning to believe, as in the play of children; a mere pretense; a fiction; an invention.
• MAKEPEACE
  A peacemaker. [R.] Shak.
• Amendment
  An alteration or change for the better; correction of a fault or of faults; reformation of life by quitting vices.
• Make-game
  An object of ridicule; a butt.
• MAKINGIRON
  A tool somewhat like a chisel with a groove in it, used by calkers of ships to finish the seams after the oakum has been driven in.
• Makeless
  Matchless.
• Make-peace
  A peacemaker.
• Bettering
  of Better
• Betterment
  A making better; amendment; improvement.
• Makeshift
  That with which one makes shift; a temporary expedient.
• Bettermost
  Best.
• Betterness
  The quality of being better or superior; superiority.
• Makeweight
  That which is thrown into a scale to make weight; something of little account added to supply a deficiency or fill a gap.
• Improvement
  The act of improving; advancement or growth; promotion in desirable qualities; progress toward what is better; melioration; as, the improvement of the mind, of land, roads, etc.

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