Welcome to another exciting installment of Word Woman's Weekly Work-Out! Train your brain for a lifetime of mental fitness by expanding your vocabulary. Now let's stretch those neural pathways with the Word of the Week:
Acrophile: a lover of high mountains; a mountaineer. -- "-Ologies and -Isms: A Thematic Dictionary", Howard G. Zettler, ed., Gale Research Company, 1978.
Example: Maintaining the cables on the alpine aerial tram was definitely a job for an acrophile, not an acrophobe* like George.
* Acrophobe: The opposite of an acrophile; one who fears or avoids great heights.
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