idiomatic use of prepositions Flashcards
ability
to
acceptable
to
according
to
acquaint
with
adhere
to
agree
with, to
angry
at, with
apropos
of
ashamed
of
averse
to
boredom
at
care
for, of
cite
as
compare
to, with
concern
for
conscious
of
cope
with
desirous
of
devolve
upon
disagree
with
draw
upon
enable
to
envious
of
except
for
fear
of
form
of
help
to
identical
to
in the habit
of
incumbent
upon
insight
into
absorbed
in
accessible
to
account
of
acquit
of
advocate
of
amenable
to
anticipation
of
aptitude
for
atone
for
capable
of
care
to
commensurate
with
compete
with
concerned
with
in consideration
of
count
on
desist
from
differ
from
disdain
for
efforts
to
endowed
with
equal
to
expert
in, at
focus
on
fraught
with
helpful
in, to
impressed
with, by
incapable
of
indebted
to
insist
on
abstain
from
accommodate
to
accuse
of
addicted
to
affinity
with
amendment
to
apply
to, for
argue
for, with
attempt
to, at
based
on
capacity
for
chance
of
comment
on
complicated
by
condemn
as, to
consistent
with
depend
on
differ
with
determination
to
distaste
for
engrossed
in
equate
with
familiar
with, to
foreign
to
frown
on
hint
at
in conflict
with
inconsistent
with
infer
from
inspired
by
accede
to
accompanied
by
accustomed
to
adept
at
analogous
to
approve
of
arrested
for
avail
of
bored
with
care
about
circumstances
of
committed
to
composed
of
conform
with, to
contingent
upon
desire
for
devoid
of
different
from
dote
on
empty
of
entitled
to
evidence
of
far
from
forget
about
glance
at
in the hope
of
in front
of
in contrast
to
infringe
on
interest
in
intervene
in
known
for, to
mistrust
of
oblivious
to
opposition
to
persist
in
prevent
from
prohibit
from
rail
at
regard
as
request
for
revealed
in
similar
to
substitute
for
sympathize
with
take umbrage
at
teem
with
trust
in
vary
with
manage
to
intolerable
to
in lieu
of
necessary
to, for
obsessed
with
opt
for
prefer one thing
to another
prior
to
prone
to
reason
with
renege
on
resistance
to
sensitive
to
smitten
with
succeed
in
synonymous
with
tamper
with
tendency
to
unique
to
on the verge
of
strive
for
jealous
of
likely
to
next
to
an offer
of
outlook
on
preoccupied
with
proficient
in
propinquity
to
recognize
as
replete
with
respond
to
separate
from
subject
to
succumb
to
take a toll
on, in
think it wise
to
unmindful
of
weight
in
inspired
by
knowledge
of
look
for, at, to
object
to
on top
of
partake
in, of
prerequisite
for
profit
by, from
have recourse
to
repugnant
to
responsible
for, to
share
in, with
subsist
on
superior
to
take
at face value
tantamount
to
think
of, about
urgency
in
with regard
to
