progress
forward movement or improvement
Roots
- gress / grad: step, walk, go, or move
- pro-: forward, forth, outward, or in favor of
Other words with the gress / grad root
- digress: to stray from the main point
- digression: a departure from the main point
- regress: to move backward or return to an earlier state
- transgress: to cross a rule or boundary
- transgression: an act of crossing a rule or boundary
Progress keeps the step image: movement ahead one step at a time.
Her vocabulary progress came from three linked word families, not one giant list.