English Vocabulary With Root Word – Set 9 Free PDF Download

Acro

• High, extremity, tip High; highest; highest point; tip

Let’s quickly revise 5 idioms and phrases:

A white elephant

•  Unprofitable possession
• A possession that is useless or troublesome especially one that is expensive to maintain or difficult to dispose of

 To plough the sands

• To do something that is futile
•  To busy oneself in an unprofitable proposition
• Doing something that seems impossible
•  I know I am merely ploughing the sand by recommending my brother to stay away from malicious relatives as he has already made up his mind to stick with them

 To be no chicken

• Means to be no longer young
•  No spring chicken- no longer young or youthful
• To be no longer in use

 Long in the tooth

• Rather old The actor according to some is getting a little long in the tooth to play the romantic lead
•  I may be long in the tooth but I’m not stupid
• An old head on young shoulders
• To be wise beyond one’s age
•  Neena may be 13, but she is so insightful. She’s really an old head on young shoulders

 Acrophobia

•  Abnormal fear of heights

Acropolis

•  A castle or citadel that is built on the TOP of a hill

Acrostic

•  A poem in which the first letters can be read downwards to form a word

Acrobat

•  Acro-high + bat- to walk
•  A performer on the tightrope
• A skilled performer of gymnastic feats such as walking on a tightrope
•  Acrobat- rope dancer

 Acrobatics

•  The skill of performing gymnastic feats

 Acrolect

•  A form of a language that is considered to have a higher status than other forms
•  Acro-high + lect- language

 Acrocarpous

•  A plant which has fruit at the tip of the stem or stalk

Acronym

•  A word formed from the first letters of the words that make up the name of something

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