Meliorism is a noun meaning the doctrine that the world tends to become or may be made better by human effort.
It is fair to debate whether or not The Industrial Revolution was a great meliorism for humanity but a bad for the planet.
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June 4, 2014
Amanuensis is a noun meaning one employed to write from dictation or to copy manuscript.
Over the course of the six months Ethan spent as an amanuensis for the blind author, he fell in love with her yet never gathered the courage to speak his heart.
June 3, 2014
Extirpate is a verb meaning 1) to destroy completely, wipe out, 2) to pull up by the root, or 3) to cut out by surgery.
Melissa breathed a huge sigh of relief after she successfully extirpated a cyst that was pressing on the spinal cord of a ten-year-old boy.
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