Progress and Traverse

Progress

Progress noun - Forward movement in time or place.

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Traverse and progress are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Traverse" instead the word "Progress" as a noun or a verb.

Traverse noun - Travel across.

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Progress and traverse are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Progress" instead the word "Traverse" as a noun or a verb.

Nearby Words: traversed, traversal, traversing

area	progress area	traverse area
village	progress village	traverse village
way	progress way	traverse way
level	progress level	traverse level
Other words: obstacles, stages, levels, areas.

Inverted in the first game, where you traverse down below the city to progress through the main dungeon.

Source: Video Game / Etrian Odyssey
The main obstacle to progress is that the caverns you have to traverse are flooded by acid, and the only way to lower it is to kill a certain number of Metroids in each area.

Source: Video Game / Metroid II: Return of Samus
Harder difficulty modes have fewer points, which just means that you'll have to traverse through more areas without dying in order to be able to save your progress and avoid having to redo the areas that you've just finished.

Source: Save-Game Limits

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