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grad/gress & gram/graph
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| grad | Latin- “To step” |
| gress | Latin- “to step” |
| graduate | (n) a person who has received a degree or diploma on completing a course of study, as in a university, college, or school. |
| progressive | (adj) making advances toward better conditions; employing or advocating more enlightened or liberal ideas, new or experimental methods, etc. |
| degrade | (v) to reduce someone to a lower rank, degree, etc.; deprive them of office, rank, status, or title, especially as a punishment; to lower in character or quality; to cause people to feel they have no value. |
| regress | (v) to move backward; go back; to revert to an earlier or less advanced state or form. |
| gradual | (adj) taking place, changing, moving, etc., by small degrees or little by little. |
| aggression | (n) the action of a state in violating by force the rights of another state, particularly its territorial rights |
| aggression | (n) an unprovoked offensive, attack, invasion, or the like |
| grade | (n) a degree or step in a scale, as of rank, advancement, quality, value, or intensity |
| progress | (n) a movement toward a goal or to a further or higher stage |
| gram | Latin- “write, draw, describe, record” |
| graph | Latin- “write, draw, describe, record” |
| diagram | (n) a simplified drawing showing the appearance, structure, or workings of something. |
| anagram | (n) a word, phrase, or name formed by rearranging the letters of another, such as cinema, formed from iceman. |
| graphics | (adj) of or relating to visual art, especially involving drawing, engraving, or lettering. |
| seismograph | (n) an instrument that measures and records details of earthquakes, such as force and duration. |
| graphite | (n) a gray, crystalline form of carbon that occurs as a mineral in some rocks. It can be used as lead in pencils. |
| grammar | (n) the study of the classes of words, their inflections, and their functions and relations in a language |
| calligraphy | (n) the art of producing decorative handwriting or lettering with a pen or brush. |