Idiomatic Usage Flashcards
Master Idiomatic Usage
concern (consider)
about
care
about
worry
about
theorize
about
modeled
after
protect
against
prejudiced
against
defend
against
depict
as
regard
as
defined
as
acclaimed
as
at least as
as
perceive
as
view
as
aim
at
angry
at
rivalry
between
profit
by
fascinated
by
built
by
judge
by
prized
by
delighted
by
attended
by
embarrassed
by
accompanied
by
hindered
by
encouraged
by
allows
for
potential (not to)
for
responsible
for
call
for
rates
for
(get) credit
for
need
for
grounds
for
adapted
for
rival
for
account (explaining something)
for
concern (worried)
for
compensate
for
guilty
for
requisition
for
give credit
for
exchange
for
craving
for
mistake
for
isolate
from
benefit
from
suffer
from
separate
from
prevent
from
divergent
from
differ
from
inherit
from
discourage
from
different
from
dwindle
from
escape
from
date
from
away
from
descend
from
independent (not of)
from
prohibit
from
emerges
from
flee
from
originate
in
concern (relevant)
in
instill
in
fluctuations
in
boom
in
aid (gerund)
in
invest
in
concur (opinion)
in
belief
in
acquiesce
in
participate
in
decline
in
localized
in
research
into
dispose
of
take advantage
of
danger
of
rid
of
choice
of
afraid
of
chance (something)
of
repent
of
interaction
of
instead
of
rate
of
solicitous
of
tolerant
of
envious
of
composed
of
comprise
of
partake
of
receptive (not to)
of
approve
of
jealous
of
accuse
of
on account
of
disdain
of
sensible
of
be oblivious
of
descendant
of
consequence
of
consist
of
independent (not from)
of
desirous
of
because
of
ask
of
sequence
of
suspicious
of
violation
of
sparing
of
a native
of
instance
of
capable
of
aware (something)
of
frequency
of
opposite
of
regardless
of
disapprove
of
authority
on
depend
on
spend
on
focus
on
centers
on
agree (noun/gerund but not person)
on
draw (take out)
on
decide (something)
on
based
on
comment
on
base
on
argue (topic)
over
debate
over
more
than
sooner
than
better
than
rather
than
less
than
demonstrate
that
assure
that
anticipated
that
indicate
that
fear
that
aware (independent clause)
that
insist
that
hypothesize
that
mandate
that
demand
that
contend
that
conclude
that
doubt
that
responsibility
to
persuade
to
attempt
to
attention
to
permit
to
essential
to
predisposed
to
apply
to
way
to
(give) credit
to
promise
to
conductive
to
try
to
appear
to
due
to
introduce
to
begin
to
sensitive
to
refer
to
send
to
chance (verb)
to
available
to
able
to
accede
to
respond
to
manage
to
opposed
to
in order
to
account (receiving blame or credit)
to
ask (person)
to
compare (similarities)
to
analogous
to
contrary
to
disclose
to
equal
to
need
to
agree (not noun/gerund/person)
to
allocated
to
access
to
attribute
to
prefer
to
amount
to
forbid
to
lead
to
allergy
to
identical (not with)
to
alternative
to
inclined
to
according
to
easy
to
related
to
potential (not for)
to
explain
to
similar
to
conform
to
encourage
to
prior
to
appeal
to
difficult
to
convert
to
preferable
to
oblivious
to
transit
to
train
to
liken
to
resistance
to
superior
to
contribute
to
pressure
to
affect
to
order
to
expect
to
effort
to
correspond (not with)
to
native
to
ability
to
extend
to
threaten
to
receptive (not of)
to
credit (give money)
to
continue
to
in contrast
to
decide (action)
to
averse
to
