melioration vs status

melioration and status both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
melioration	Yes	No	No	No
status	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, status is a hypernym of melioration; that is, status is a word with a broader meaning than melioration:

Other hypernyms of melioration include condition.

melioration (noun)	status (noun)
the act of relieving ills and changing for the better	the relative position or standing of things or especially persons in a society
the linguistic process in which over a period of time a word grows more positive in connotation or more elevated in meaning	a state at a particular time
a condition superior to an earlier condition