Goaded vs. Graded

Goadedverb

simple past tense and past participle of goad

Gradedverb

simple past tense and past participle of grade

Goaded

compelled forcibly by an outside agency; as, mobs goaded by blind hatred.

Gradedadjective

Having been smoothed by a grader.

‘a graded road’;

Goadedadjective

compelled forcibly by an outside agency;

‘mobs goaded by blind hatred’;

Gradedadjective

Forming a series decreasing or increasing in intensity of a given quality.

Graded

ordered by some quantitative ranking; as, Reading tests of graded difficulty.

Graded

leveled and drained but not paved; - of roads.

Gradedadjective

arranged in a sequence of grades or ranks;

‘stratified areas of the distribution’;