graduation (n.)

• advance
• advancement
• aggrandizement
• boost
• celebration
• ceremonial
• ceremony
• commencement
• convocation
• elevation
• ennoblement
• exaltation
• exercise
• exercises
• formal
• formality
• function
• gradation
• grading
• inaugural
• inauguration
• initiation
• liturgy
• mummery
• observance
• office
• passing
• performance
• preferment
• promotion
• raise
• rise
• rite
• ritual
• service
• shading
• solemnity
• solemnization
• upping