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graded
CIDE DICTIONARY
graded, adj.
- ordered by some quantitative ranking; as, Reading tests of graded difficulty. [WordNet 1.5]
- leveled and drained but not paved; -- of roads. [WordNet 1.5]
THESAURUS
graded
aligned, arranged, arrayed, assorted, cataloged, categorized, classified, composed, constituted, disposed, filed, fixed, grouped, harmonized, hierarchic, indexed, marshaled, methodized, normalized, on file, ordered, orderly, organized, pigeonholed, placed, pyramidal, ranged, ranked, rated, regularized, regulated, routinized, sorted, standardized, stratified, synchronized, systematized, tabularFor further exploring for "graded" in Webster Dictionary Online