Trace
Part of speech: verb
Definition: To follow the trail of. To draw or sketch. To copy onto a sheet of transparent paper.
Part of speech: noun
Definition: An act of tracing. A mark left as a sign of passage of a person or animal. A very small amount. An electric current-carrying conductive pathway on a printed circuit board. An informal road or prominent path in an arid area. The sum of the diagonal elements of a square matrix.
Example sentence: No graduation speaker will ever tell you that the future is anything but uncertain. It never is. But graduations need not only be obsessed with looking ahead; a graduation can be a day on which we turn back and trace our steps to see how we ended up where we are.
Shadow
Part of speech: verb
Definition: To block light or radio transmission.To secretly or discretely track or follow another, to keep under surveillance.To make an identifier, usually a variable, inaccessible by declaring another of the same name within the scope of the first.
Part of speech: noun
Definition: A dark image projected onto a surface where light is blocked by the shade of an object.Relative darkness, especially as caused by the interruption of light; gloom, obscurity.That which looms as though a shadow.Merely a hint of substance.One who secretly or furtively follows another.A type of lettering form of word processors that makes a cubic effect.
Example sentence: We are shaped by our thoughts; we become what we think. When the mind is pure, joy follows like a shadow that never leaves.