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Vocabulary to show movement and speed

Movement

Nouns (to infinity)

Upwards To rise, to increase, to rocket, to grow


Downwards To fall, to decline, to decrease, to drop, to plummet

Verb
Upwards rise, increase, growth
Downwards fall, decline, decrease, drop

Size
Type Adjective
Small slight
Medium moderate
Large considerable, significant, substantial

Speed

Type Adjective
Slow gradual, steady
Fast rapid, sharp, dramatic

Adverbs
Size
Type Adverb
Small slightly
Medium moderately
Large considerably, significantly, substantially

Speed

Type Adverb
Slow gradually, steadily
Fast rapidly, sharply, dramatically

Other words to describe change


Direction
an upward trend
Upwards a peak / to peak / to reach a peak
a high point / to reach a high point
a downward trend
Downwards
a trough

Type
Change a fluctuation / to fluctuate
Lack of change a plateau / to plateau / to reach a plateau
to remain stable
to remain constant
to remain steady
to remain the same

Words to describe quantity


to show less than to show similar quantity to show more than
around
just under approximately just over
well under about well over
less than roughly more than
nearly

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