Chapter 1 Flashcards
Brush up on
Study again, review, refresh one’s memory about…
Catch up with
Come to someone from behind, overtake
Check … Over
Take another look at, try to find mistakes in, examine
Cross … Off
Mark out, cancel
Fall behind
Fail to do work, etc., by a certain time; move more slowly than (someone else)
Figure … out
Find (an answer or a solution), decide, learn, understand
Find … out
Discover, learn
Get along
Do (One’s work, etc.) well enough, manage, succeed fairly well
Get away
Escape, leave (something dangerous or bad) (often followed by from)
Give up
Stop trying, surrender
Go after …
Go to get (something)
Hand … in …
Give to a teacher, etc., pass in, submit (=turn in)
Head for …
Go toward
Keep at …
Continue to try (especially something difficult or tiresome), persist in
Keep up with …
Stay even with, stay beside (in a race, etc.), do what is necessary for (the opposite of fall behind)
Look for …
Try to find, seek
Look … up ….
Search for and find (especially in printed matter)
Make … up …
Take or do (an examination, a paper, etc.) that one has missed
Pull through
Succeed or recover after some difficult, get well after an illness, survive, come to a good ending
Put … in …
Include, add
Put … off ….
Delay doing, postpone, avoid doing
Put … together …
Bring separate parts together, compile, assemble
Read … through …
Read all of, read completely
Stand for
Mean, represent, symbolize
Tear … up…
Tear into pieces, destroy by tearing into pieces
Try … out on …
Get (someone else’s) opinion of (Requires two objects. One of the objects may be after out.)
Turn … in …
Give to a teacher, etc., pass in, submit.
