Ameliorate
Original Source:
"Bad writers, and especially scientific, political, and sociological writers, are nearly always haunted by the notion Latin or Greek words are grander than Saxon ones, and unnecessary words like expedite, ameliorate, predict, extraneous, deracinated, clandestine, subaqueous, and hundreds of other constant gain ground form the Anglo-Saxon numbers."
"George
Orwell, "Politics and the English Language," 1946." George
Orwell, "Politics and the English Language," 1946. N.p., n.d.
Web. 5 Jan. 2014. <https://www.mtholyoke.edu/acad/intrel/orwell46.htm>.
Definition*:
to make or become better, more bearable, or more satisfactory; improve; meliorate.
*All definitions are from the source found in THIS post.
Second Source:
"For reforms ameliorate the situation of the working class, they lighten the weight of the chains labour is burdened with by capitalism, but they are not sufficient to crush capitalism and to emancipate the workers from their tyranny."
"Clara
Zetkin at BrainyQuote." BrainyQuote. Xplore, n.d. Web. 8 Jan. 2014.
<http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/quotes/c/clarazetki324373.html>.
Commentary:
The word ameliorate reminds me of the name Amelia. Orwell lists the word as one that is derived from Latin or Greek in the English language and one that he deems unnecessary. Zetkin, in the second source, employs the word to say that reforms make the situation of the working class better, but are not strong enough to dispose of capitalism.
The word ameliorate reminds me of the name Amelia. Orwell lists the word as one that is derived from Latin or Greek in the English language and one that he deems unnecessary. Zetkin, in the second source, employs the word to say that reforms make the situation of the working class better, but are not strong enough to dispose of capitalism.
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