Stems Week 21

1) to treat something or someone poorly and without respect. It was inappropriate for the teacher to degrade the student. (2) to make the quality of something

worse.

• degrade

• gradual

• graduate

• progressive

moving or changing in small amounts; happening in a slow way over a long period of time.

• degrade

• gradual

• graduate

• progressive

to earn a degree or diploma from a school, college, or university; to move from one level to a higher level

• regress

• gradual

• graduate

• progressive

moving forward; using or interested in new or modern ideas.

• regress

• gradual

• graduate

• progressive

to return to an earlier and usually worse or less-developed condition or state.

• regress

• gradual

• graduate

• progressive

grad, gres

having good or pleasing qualities; worth having or getting

• desirable

• vulnerable

• visible

• flexible

easily hurt or harmed physically, mentally, or emotionally; open to attack, harm, or damage.

• desirable

• vulnerable

• visible

• flexible

able to be seen; easily seen or understood; known to or noticed by the public.

• reversible

• vulnerable

• visible

• flexible

capable of bending or being bent; easily changed; willing to change or try different things.

• reversible

• vulnerable

• visible

• flexible