English Vocabulary With Root Word – Set 2- Free PDF Download

Err

• Meaning
• to wander, to stray
•  Latin root word
• Wander + make a mistake
• Wandering from the correct path/ answer
•  We can easily remember this root word from the word ERROR

 Error

• Meaning
•  Wandering from the correct answer

err

• Meaning
• To wander from the truth

unerring

• Meaning
• Never wandering from doing the right thing

erratic

• Meaning
• Of wandering behaviour instead of normal Unpredictable; not even or regular in pattern Fluctuating, mercurial

Aberrant

• Meaning
• Of wandering from the norm
• Ab- away, from + err- wander, make a mistake
• Outside the norm of the society, that is really unacceptable Making a mistake in the society’s view
•  Departing from accepted standard

 Erroneous

• Meaning
•  Wandering from the truth
• Fact or a statement that is not correct or it’s completely wrong
• Fallacious; wrong, incorrect; imprecise
•  Specious, bogus, spurious

Errata/ Erratum

• Meaning
• Wanderings in the form of mistakes in a printed work
• An error in printing or writing

 Errant

• Meaning
• Wandering from the correct path
• Wondered or strayed away from the normal behaviour
• Errant behaviour= very strange and not normal
• Deviant, erring or straying from the accepted course or standards

Arrant

• Meaning
• Really wandering from the correct path
• Used to say how bad something is

 3 phrases for today: Guess the meaning ?

 Run of the mill

• Ordinary, everyday type of thing
•  Lackluster, uninspired, dull, humdrum, colourless, bland, vapid, flat, dry Ordinary, unmemorable, commonplace
• Get on your soapbox
• Read the riot

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