| A | B |
| gress | step, walk, go |
| aggressive | disposed to attack; militant; assertive; pushing |
| egress | means of going out; exit |
| gradation | 1. change by steps or stages; 2. act of grading |
| grade | step; stage; degree; rating |
| gradient | 1. rate at wich a road, railroad, track, temperature, voltage, etc. rises or falls.; 2. slope; inclination |
| gradual | step-by-step; proceeding by small stages or degrees |
| graduate | complete all the steps of a course and receive a diploma or degree |
| graduated | arranged in regular steps, stages, or degrees |
| progressive | going forward to something considered better |
| regressive | disposed to move; backward; retrogressive |
| retrograde | 1. going backward; 2. becoming worse |
| retrogression | act of going from a better to a worse state; deterioration |
| transgress | step beyond the limits or barriers; go beyone; break a law; violate |
| ped | foot |
| biped | two-footed animal |
| centipede | wormlike animal with one pari of legs on most of its segments |
| expedite | 1. facilitate; 2. accelerate or spped up |
| impede | hinder; obstruct; block |
| impediment | 1. hindrance; obstacle |
| millipede | wormlike animal with two paris of legs on most of its segments |
| pedal | lever acted on by the foot |
| pedestal | 1. support or foot of a column or statue; 2. foundation |
| pedestrian (n) | person traveling on foot |
| pedestrian (adj) | commonplace; unimaginative; dull |
| velocipede | 1. child's tricycle; 2. early form of bicycle |
| tact | touch |
| contact | touching or meeting; association; connection |
| contiguous | touching; in physical contact; adjoining |
| contingent | 1. dependent on something else; 2. accidental |
| intact | untouched or uninjured; kept or left whole |
| intangible | 1. not capable of being perceived by the sense of touch 2. hard to grasp or define exactly |
| tact | sensitive mental perception of what is appropriate on a given occasion |
| tactful | having or showing tact; diplomatic |
| tactile | 1. pertaining to the sense of touch; 2. tangible |
| tangent (adj) | touching at only one point |
| tangent (n) | line or surface meeting a curved line or surfce at one point, but not intersecting it |
| tangential | merely touching; slightly connected; digressive |