What is the difference in meaning?
It will mitigate poverty.
vs.
It will alleviate poverty.
Are mitigate and alleviate synonyms?
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They seem like synonyms, but they're used a little differently. alleviate - to make something less painful, severe, or serious mitigate - to reduce the harmful effects of something From these definitions you should be able to see that 'mitigate' will not work. You aren't saying anything about the harmful effects of poverty.
- They seem like synonyms, but they're used a little differently.
- alleviate - to make something less painful, severe, or serious mitigate - to reduce the harmful effects of something From these definitions you should be able to see that 'mitigate' will not work.
- You aren't saying anything about the harmful effects of poverty.
- You're saying something about making poverty less painful.
- CJ
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They seem like synonyms, but they're used a little differently.
alleviate - to make something less painful, severe, or serious
mitigate - to reduce the harmful effects of something
From these definitions you should be able to see that 'mitigate' will not work. You aren't saying anything about the harmful effects of poverty. You're saying something about making poverty less pa
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