- Abide by: Accept, follow or obey a decision, agreement or rule: I have to ABIDE BY what my father says.
- Account for: To explain: Can he account for his action?
- Ache for: Want something or someone a lot: My partner’s been away for a fortnight- I am ACHING FOR her.
- Act out: To express your thoughts or feelings with actions and gestures: Children act out what they read.|1
- Act up: Behave badly, inappropriately or strangely: My motorbike is acting up again.|1
- act upon: To do something because you have received information: You had better act upon my advice.|1
- Add up: To calculate the sum or total: Our business expenses add up to around $500 a month.|1
- Agree with: Affect– usually used in the negative to show that something has had a negative effect, especially is it makes you feel bad: I feel terrible- that food didn’t AGREE WITH my stomach.
- Aim at: To target: The magazine is AIMED AT teenagers.
- Allow for: Include something (some extra time or money) in your planning: We must allow for some delays.
- Allow of: Make possible, permit: The rules don’t ALLOW OF any exceptions.
- Angle for: Try to get something indirectly, by hinting or suggesting: He’s been ANGLING FOR an invitation, but I don’t want him to come.
- Answer for: To be responsible for something bad or wrong: He must be made to answer for his terrible behaviour.
- Argue down: Beat someone in a debate, discussion or argument: The teacher tried to ARGUE the girl DOWN, but she couldn’t.
- Argue out: Argue about a problem to find a solution: If we can’t ARGUE our differences OUT, we’ll have to take them to court.
- Ask round: To invite someone to one’s house.: Can I invite you for dinner on Sartuday night?
