Proficiency word lists of press, compress, depress, express, impress, oppress, repress, and suppress.
per
2 Articles
Proto-Indo-European root meaning “to strike” (sense 4), an extended sense from root *per- (sense 1) “forward, through.”
Both press and print (Middle English) can be traced back to Latin premere, ‘to press’, as can pressure, compress, depress, express, impress, oppress, repress, suppress, etc.