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progressive
Adjective
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Something that is progressive has to do with progress.
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In politics, someone who is progressive wants to make things better through new laws and methods.
It's a victory for feminism and progressive politics.
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A progressive tax is a tax that makes the rich pay a much higher amount of their money than the poor.
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The progressive aspect is made with a form of the verb "be" and a verb with an "-ing" at the end.
The present progressive of "I go" is "I am going" and the past progressive of "I walk" is "I was walking".
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If a disease is progressive, it begins slowly and gets worse over time.
damage
Noun
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If something has some damage, there is something broken or hurt.
Their car hit a truck, but luckily there was very little damage to the car.
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Money that someone has to pay someone else because something was damaged or someone was hurt.
The reason his car hit another car was that he did something wrong, so he had to pay damages to the owner of the other car.
damage
Verb
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If you damage something, you break or hurt it.
All those cigarettes have damaged her health.
The factory has caused significant damage to the local environment.