amelioration vs readjustment

amelioration

noun
  • An improvement. 

  • The act of making better. 

  • The process by which a term gains a more positive connotation over time. 

  • An ameliorative change of a concept or a repertoire of concepts. 

readjustment

noun
  • A second or subsequent adjustment. 

How often have the words amelioration and readjustment occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )