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Synonyms for progress
Synonyms for progress: advance and advancement. Every one of them is a hand audited pair from the Synonym Stack word bank, shown below in the sense it fits, in a real sentence, and beside the words that only look close.
The 2 synonyms for progress
- advancenoun, in the sense "a movement forward"
- advancementnoun, in the sense "gradual improvement or growth or development"
Each of these belongs to a different sense of progress, which is why the meaning beside them changes down the list.
a movement forward
He listened for the progress of the troops.
progress in 2 more sentences, same sense
- From the window she watched the progress of the parade as it moved slowly down the crowded avenue.
- The waiter kept an eye on the progress of the trolley as it rolled between the crowded tables.
How it behaves: In this sense progress usually appears as "the progress of" a moving body such as troops, a vehicle, or a procession, often paired with verbs like watch, track, or listen for in a narrative register.
The true synonym
advance
Same sentence, swapped: He listened for the advance of the troops.
Close but different
These three are the other tiles the game puts on screen for this sense, and the note above says why the closest of them fails. None is a synonym for progress in the sentence quoted.
- entrance
- creep
- campaign
Opposites, in this sense
retreat and withdrawal reverse progress as it is used in the sentence above. A different sense of progress takes different opposites, which is why these sit inside the sense and not at the top of the page.
- retreat
- withdrawal
gradual improvement or growth or development
Great progress in the arts.
The true synonym
advancement
Same sentence, swapped: Great advancement in the arts.
Close but different
Wrong tiles, chosen to be tempting rather than absurd. The reason line above takes the nearest one apart; the rest fail the same sentence for their own reasons.
- broadening
- campaign
- shift
Where progress turns up in the game
progress is the word under test in two puzzles, spread across two difficulty tiers. It also sits on the board as one of the three wrong tiles in three other puzzles, where the answer is a different word entirely.
The puzzles where progress is the trap
- approachnoun, Tier 1, Foothills. The answer there is coming, in the sense "the act of drawing spatially closer to something", with progress sitting one tile away.
- coastnoun, Tier 1, Foothills. The answer there is slide, in the sense "the act of moving smoothly along a surface while remaining in contact with it", with progress sitting one tile away.
- buildverb, Tier 2, Treeline. The answer there is establish, in the sense "build or establish something abstract", so progress is there to be ruled out.
Play progress
The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so progress reaches you as a board rather than a definition: the sentence first, four tiles, and the meaning after you choose.
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Neighbours by theme before neighbours by difficulty, because events is the company progress keeps.
Why the near miss missed, in the game as well as here
Synonym Stack plays from this exact bank. progress carries 2 written reason lines, and the game shows them the moment a round ends, whichever tile you tapped.