| amend | (verb) to make better | Synonyms: ameliorate, better, improve, meliorate |
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| (verb) set straight or right | Synonyms: rectify, remediate, remedy, repair |
| (verb) make amendments to | - |
| amendable | (adjective) capable of being corrected by additions | Synonyms: correctable |
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| amendatory | (adjective) effecting amendment | - |
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| amended | (adjective) of legislation | - |
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| (adjective) modified for the better | - |
| amendment | (noun) the act of amending or correcting | - |
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| (noun) a statement that is added to or revises or improves a proposal or document (a bill or constitution etc.) | - |
| amends | (noun) something done or paid in expiation of a wrong | Synonyms: reparation |
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| (noun) a sum of money paid in compensation for loss or injury | Synonyms: damages, indemnification, indemnity, redress, restitution |
| commend | (verb) express approbation of | - |
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| (verb) mention as by way of greeting or to indicate friendship | Synonyms: remember |
| (verb) express a good opinion of | Synonyms: recommend |
| (verb) give to in charge | - |
| (verb) present as worthy of regard, kindness, or confidence | - |
| commendable | (adjective) worthy of high praise | Synonyms: applaudable, laudable, praiseworthy |
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| (adverb) in an admirable manner | Synonyms: admirably, laudably, praiseworthily |
| commendation | (noun) an official award (as for bravery or service) usually given as formal public statement | Synonyms: citation |
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| (noun) a message expressing a favorable opinion | Synonyms: approval |
| emend | (verb) make improvements or corrections to | - |
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| emendation | (noun) a correction by emending; a correction resulting from critical editing | - |
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| emended | (adjective) improved or corrected by critical editing | Synonyms: edited |
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| mend | (noun) the act of putting something in working order again | Synonyms: fix, fixing, fixture, mending, repair, reparation |
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| (noun) sewing that repairs a worn or torn hole (especially in a garment) | Synonyms: darn, patch |
| (verb) restore by replacing a part or putting together what is torn or broken | Synonyms: bushel, doctor, fix, furbish up, repair, restore, touch on |
| (verb) heal or recover | Synonyms: heal |
| mendacious | (adjective) intentionally untrue | - |
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| (adjective) given to lying | - |
| mendaciously | (adverb) in a mendacious and untruthful manner | Synonyms: untruthfully |
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| mendacity | (noun) the tendency to be untruthful | - |
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| mendelevium | (noun) a radioactive transuranic element synthesized by bombarding einsteinium with alpha particles (Md is the current symbol for mendelevium but Mv was formerly the symbol) | Synonyms: atomic number 101, Md, Mv |
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| mender | (noun) a skilled worker who mends or repairs things | Synonyms: fixer, repairer |
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| mendicancy | (noun) a solicitation for money or food (especially in the street by an apparently penniless person) | Synonyms: beggary, begging |
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| (noun) the state of being a beggar or mendicant | Synonyms: beggary, mendicity |
| mendicant | (adjective) practicing beggary | - |
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| (noun) a pauper who lives by begging | Synonyms: beggar |
| (noun) a male member of a religious order that originally relied solely on alms | Synonyms: friar |
| mendicity | (noun) the state of being a beggar or mendicant | Synonyms: beggary, mendicancy |
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| mending | (noun) the act of putting something in working order again | Synonyms: fix, fixing, fixture, mend, repair, reparation |
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| (noun) garments that must be repaired | - |
| recommend | (verb) make attractive or acceptable | - |
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| (verb) express a good opinion of | Synonyms: commend |
| (verb) push for something | Synonyms: advocate, urge |
| recommendation | (noun) any quality or characteristic that gains a person a favorable reception or acceptance or admission | Synonyms: passport |
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| (noun) something (as a course of action) that is recommended as advisable | - |
| (noun) something that recommends (or expresses commendation of) a person or thing as worthy or desirable | Synonyms: good word, testimonial |
| tremendismo | (noun) post-war Spanish literary style marked by a tendency to emphasize violence and grotesque imagery. | - |
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| tremendous | (adjective) extraordinarily good or great; used especially as intensifiers | Synonyms: fantastic, grand, howling, marvellous, marvelous, phenomenal, rattling, terrific, wonderful, wondrous |
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| (adjective) extraordinarily large in size or extent or amount or power or degree | Synonyms: enormous |
| (adjective) extreme in degree or extent or amount or impact | Synonyms: awful, frightful, terrible |
| tremendously | (adverb) vastly | Synonyms: enormously, hugely, staggeringly |
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| unamended | (adjective) (of legislation) not amended | - |
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