Lesson 15 - Help and improvement

Aegis

1. Sponsorship

2. Protection

Amends

Compesation given as satisfaction for insult, loss or injure

To make amends

To make up (to someone) for an insult or injury

Conciliatory

Tending to win over or soothe; attempting to overcome distrust or anger.

Conducive

1. Tending to cause, promote, or help boring about.

2. Helpful; favorable.

Extricate

To free or release from an entanglement or difficulty; disengage.

Foster

1. To promote the development or growth of; cultivate.

2. To bring up; rear: to foster a child

3. (adj) Receiving or giving parental care although not related through legal or blood ties

Importune

To press with repeated and insistent requests; beg urgently.

Mediate

1. To help the opposing sides in a dispute come to an agreement by hearing their arguments and proposing a compromise.

2. To settle by intervening in this way

3. To intervine between disputing parties to bring about an agreement.

Mitigate

To make less severe or intense; moderate

Rectify

1. To set right; remedy

2. To correct by calculation or adjustment