Reclaim
Part of speech: verb
Definition: To return land to a suitable condition for use. To obtain useful products from waste; to recycle. To return someone to a proper course of action; to reform. To claim something back; to repossess. To tame or domesticate a wild animal.
Part of speech: noun
Definition: An effort to take something back, to reclaim something.
Example sentence: Tonight, we reclaim our country so that we can pass on to future generations the freedoms and the opportunity that we have inherited from those who came before us.
Reform
Part of speech: noun
Definition: Amendment of what is defective, vicious, corrupt, or depraved; reformation; as, reform of elections; reform of government.
Part of speech: verb
Definition: To put into a new and improved form or condition; to restore to a former good state, or bring from bad to good; to change from worse to better; to amend; to correct; as, to reform a profligate man; to reform corrupt manners or morals.To return to a good state; to amend or correct one's own character or habits; as, a person of settled habits of vice will seldom reform.To form again or in a new configuration.
Example sentence: Juvenile justice is probably the area that's most ripe for reform, in the nice liberal sense of the word, simply because there's no getting around the fact that a teenage brain is not an adult brain.