rectify
REK-tuh-fyeverbMeaning to put right; to correct
Memory hook RECT = straight, as in RECTangle. The family photo hangs crooked, so Priya nudges it until every corner is square, like a rectangle. To set something straight is to rectify it.
The store rectified its mistake by refunding the extra charge.
In context The newspaper had printed the wrong date for the concert, so the next morning it rectified the error with a notice on the front page.
Similar correct, fix, put right, amend
Opposite worsen
From Latin rectificare, “to make right”: rectus (straight, right) + facere (to make).