Word Knowledge

What does the root word “gress” mean?

The root word -gress is one of the many root words that I included in my book, The ASVAB Tutor’s Word Knowledge and Paragraph Comprehension Study Guide.  As an ASVAB tutor, I tell my students of the significance of learning the most common Latin and Greek prefixes, root words, and suffixes to boost their ASVAB score.  There are a number of words in the English language with the root word -gress.  Examples include progress, progression, progressive, regress, regression, digress, and so on.  Do you know what the root word -gress means?

I will present the answer and explanation tomorrow.