ADJ
- considerable, dramatic, encouraging, excellent, genuine, good, great, impressive, real, remarkable, significant, substantial
- fast, rapid, swift
- inexorable
- slow, stately
- We watched the ship's stately progress out of the harbour
- satisfactory, steady
- further
- academic, educational
VERB + PROGRESS
- achieve, make
- assess, chart, check (on), evaluate, monitor, observe, review, trace, track, watch
- Regular tests enable the teacher to monitor the progress of each child
- block, hamper, hinder, impede, obstruct, slow (down)
- halt, stop
- accelerate, facilitate
PREP
- in ~
- There was a cricket match in progress
- ~ from … to …
- The book traced his steady progress from petty theft to serious crime
- ~ in
- He's making good progress in maths
- ~ on
- How much progress have the builders made on the extension?
- ~ towards
- Who can halt Woods' inexorable progress towards yet another championship?
- ~ with
- She's making steady progress with her thesis
PHRASES
- a lack of progress
- I was frustrated by my apparent lack of progress when I started the violin
- a rate of progress
- At the present rate of progress we won't be finished before July
- work in progress
- I have one file for completed work and one for work in progress
ADJ
- economic, evolutionary, industrial, medical, scientific, social, technical, technological
- human
PHRASES
- the march of progress
- the onward march of technological progress