{"id":1107,"date":"2010-09-30T06:05:41","date_gmt":"2010-09-30T11:05:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.manhattangre.com\/blog\/?p=1107"},"modified":"2019-08-30T16:52:52","modified_gmt":"2019-08-30T16:52:52","slug":"easily-confused-words-gradation-and-graduation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.manhattanprep.com\/gre\/blog\/easily-confused-words-gradation-and-graduation\/","title":{"rendered":"Easily Confused Words: Gradation and Graduation"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"hero-unit\">\n<h3>gradation \u00e2\u2030\u00a0 graduation<\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<p>Graduation, of course, is what happens at the end of a course of study.  <a href=\"\/\/dictionary.reference.com\/browse\/gradation\">Gradation<\/a>, however, is any change or process taking place in stages, or gradually.<\/p>\n<p>Something with <em>gradations<\/em> is <a href=\"\/\/dictionary.reference.com\/browse\/gradated\">gradated<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The dress showed a gentle <em>gradation<\/em> of color, beginning at the top with a robin&#8217;s egg blue and ending at the hem with a sea-foam green.<\/p>\n<p>Some spelling bee manuals divide words into easy, medium, and difficult, but relative difficulty among spelling words is really far more <em>gradated<\/em> than those three categories would suggest.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>gradation \u00e2\u2030\u00a0 graduation Graduation, of course, is what happens at the end of a course of study. Gradation, however, is any change or process taking place in stages, or gradually. Something with gradations is gradated. The dress showed a gentle gradation of color, beginning at the top with a robin&#8217;s egg blue and ending at [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,13],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-1107","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gre-strategies","category-vocabulary"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.manhattanprep.com\/gre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1107","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.manhattanprep.com\/gre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.manhattanprep.com\/gre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.manhattanprep.com\/gre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/22"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.manhattanprep.com\/gre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1107"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.manhattanprep.com\/gre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1107\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7348,"href":"https:\/\/www.manhattanprep.com\/gre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1107\/revisions\/7348"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.manhattanprep.com\/gre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1107"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.manhattanprep.com\/gre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1107"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.manhattanprep.com\/gre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1107"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.manhattanprep.com\/gre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=1107"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}