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Chapter 1 Flashcards

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Brush up on

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Study again, review, refresh one’s memory about…

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Catch up with

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Come to someone from behind, overtake

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Check … Over

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Take another look at, try to find mistakes in, examine

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Cross … Off

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Mark out, cancel

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Fall behind

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Fail to do work, etc., by a certain time; move more slowly than (someone else)

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Figure … out

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Find (an answer or a solution), decide, learn, understand

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Find … out

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Discover, learn

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Get along

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Do (One’s work, etc.) well enough, manage, succeed fairly well

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Get away

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Escape, leave (something dangerous or bad) (often followed by from)

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Give up

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Stop trying, surrender

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Go after …

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Go to get (something)

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Hand … in …

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Give to a teacher, etc., pass in, submit (=turn in)

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Head for …

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Go toward

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Keep at …

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Continue to try (especially something difficult or tiresome), persist in

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Keep up with …

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Stay even with, stay beside (in a race, etc.), do what is necessary for (the opposite of fall behind)

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Look for …

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Try to find, seek

17
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Look … up ….

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Search for and find (especially in printed matter)

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Make … up …

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Take or do (an examination, a paper, etc.) that one has missed

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Pull through

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Succeed or recover after some difficult, get well after an illness, survive, come to a good ending

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Put … in …

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Include, add

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Put … off ….

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Delay doing, postpone, avoid doing

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Put … together …

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Bring separate parts together, compile, assemble

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Read … through …

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Read all of, read completely

24
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Stand for

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Mean, represent, symbolize

25
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Tear … up…

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Tear into pieces, destroy by tearing into pieces

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Try … out on …

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Get (someone else’s) opinion of (Requires two objects. One of the objects may be after out.)

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Turn … in …

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Give to a teacher, etc., pass in, submit.

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