Vocabulary : Gracing to Grade

Gracing : of Grace
Gracious : Abounding in grace or mercy; manifesting love,. or bestowing mercy; characterized by grace; beneficent; merciful; disposed to show kindness or favor; condescending; as, his most gracious majesty. ;; Abounding in beauty, loveliness, or amiability; graceful; excellent. ;; Produced by divine grace; influenced or controlled by the divine influence; as, gracious affections.
Graciously : In a gracious manner; courteously; benignantly. ;; Fortunately; luckily.
Graciousness : Quality of being gracious.
Grackle : One of several American blackbirds, of the family Icteridae; as, the rusty grackle (Scolecophagus Carolinus); the boat-tailed grackle (see Boat-tail); the purple grackle (Quiscalus quiscula, or Q. versicolor). See Crow blackbird, under Crow. ;; An Asiatic bird of the genus Gracula. See Myna.

Gradate : To grade or arrange (parts in a whole, colors in painting, etc.), so that they shall harmonize. ;; To bring to a certain strength or grade of concentration; as, to gradate a saline solution.
Gradation : The act of progressing by regular steps or orderly arrangement; the state of being graded or arranged in ranks; as, the gradation of castes. ;; The act or process of bringing to a certain grade. ;; Any degree or relative position in an order or series. ;; A gradual passing from one tint to another or from a darker to a lighter shade, as in painting or drawing. ;; A diatonic ascending or descending succession of chords. ;; To form with gradations.
Gradational : By regular steps or gradations; of or pertaining to gradation.
Gradatory : Proceeding step by step, or by gradations; gradual. ;; Suitable for walking; -- said of the limbs of an animal when adapted for walking on land. ;; A series of steps from a cloister into a church.
Grade : A step or degree in any series, rank, quality, order; relative position or standing; as, grades of military rank; crimes of every grade; grades of flour. ;; The rate of ascent or descent; gradient; deviation from a level surface to an inclined plane; -- usually stated as so many feet per mile, or as one foot rise or fall in so many of horizontal distance; as, a heavy grade; a grade of twenty feet per mile, or of 1 in 264. ;; A graded ascending, descending, or level portion of a road; a gradient. ;; The result of crossing a native stock with some better breed. If the crossbreed have more than three fourths of the better blood, it is called high grade. ;; To arrange in order, steps, or degrees, according to size, quality, rank, etc. ;; To reduce to a level, or to an evenly progressive ascent, as the line of a canal or road. ;; To cross with some better breed; to improve the blood of. ;; A harsh scraping or cutting; a grating.