For a class to transfer, that college has to offer the exact same course in order to give you credit for it. Thatâs why English 121 transfers (most every college in Colorado offers that exact course), but Welding 125 does not (most four-year colleges do not offer welding).
Word roots and routes: cess, cease, cede, ceed. exceed â excess recede â recession succeed â success, succession. Email this Post. Next in a series of posts exploring some of the ârootsâ and âroutesâ of English vocabulary. English has many related words containing the roots cede, ceed, cess and cease, derived from the Latin verb cÄdere (go, go away, withdraw, yield) and its past participle cessus. Cede and cease exist as independent words, but this group of roots flourishes particularly in combination with prefixes.
You can use the verb desist as a way to say stop or cease.. Instead of yelling Cut it out! the new neighbor asked the tween girls to desist from playing any more loud, screeching music from that long-haired boy-band. If you want to insist that someone stop doing something, the word desist is a solid choice. It's often used as part of a legal order called a cease and desist, which forces an action to come to a halt. Cease is a synonym for desist, so using the two together says stop it! loud and clear â and kind of redundantly.