PB - 439

Question 1

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Answer 1

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Question 2

to fail to understand the important part of something. 1. I’m afraid you missed the point. Let me explain it again. 2. You keep explaining, and I keep missing the point.

Answer 2

miss the point

Question 3

one’s purpose in life; the reason for which one lives. 1. Bob’s mission in life is to make money. 2. My mission in life is to help people live in peace.

Answer 3

mission in life

Question 4

[for glass] to fog up; [for glass] to develop a coating of water vapor so that one cannot see. 1. The windshield misted over and we could hardly see out. 2. The glass misted up and we had to wipe it off.

Answer 4

mist over & mist up

Question 5

to confuse someone with someone else; to think that one person is another person. 1. I’m sorry. I mistook you for John. 2. Tom is always mistaking Bill for me. We don’t look a thing alike, though. 3. Try not to mix Bill up with Bob, his twin.

Answer 5

mistake someone for someone else & mix someone up with someone else

Question 6

to confuse two things with each other. 1. Please don’t mix this idea up with that one. 2. I mistook my book for yours.

Answer 6

mistake something for something else & mix something up with something else

Question 7

to assemble a limited number of items, usually clothing, in a number of different ways. 1. Alice learned to mix and match her skirts, blouses, and sweaters so that she always could be attractively dressed on a limited budget. 2. Gary always bought black, blue, and gray trousers and shirts so he could mix and match without too many bad combinations.

Answer 7

mix & match 1

Question 8

to select a number of items from an assortment, often in order to get a quantity discount. (As opposed to getting a quantity discount for buying a lot of only one item.) 1. The candles were 25 percent off, and you could mix and match colors, sizes, and length. 2. I found a good sale on shirts. They were four for fifty dollars, and the store would let you mix and match.

Answer 8

mix & match 2

Question 9

to bring something into disorder; to throw something into a state of confusion. 1. Don’t mix up the papers on my desk. 2. He mixes up things in his eagerness to speak.

Answer 9

mix something up

Question 10

to mix or stir something using a mixing or stirring device. 1. He mixed the batter up with a spoon. 2. First, mix up the batter.

Answer 10

mix something up* (with something) 1

Question 11

to combine substances and mix them together. 1. Please mix the egg up with the sugar first. 2. Please mix up the egg with the sugar.

Answer 11

mix something up* (with something) 2

Question 12

to mix socially with someone or a group. 1. Tom dislikes Bill and Ted so much that he could never mix with them socially. 2. She finds it difficult to mix with friends.

Answer 12

mix with someone or something

Question 13

[for a substance] to combine with a substance. 1. Will this pigment mix with water? 2. Water will not mix with oil.

Answer 13

mix with something

Question 14

a varied collection of people or things. (Refers originally to a bag of game brought home after a day’s hunting.) 1. The new students in my class are a mixed bag—some bright, some positively stupid. 2. The furniture I bought is a mixed bag. Some of it is antique and the rest is quite contemporary.

Answer 14

a mixed bag

Question 15

uncertainty about someone or something. (*Typically: get ~; have ~; give someone ~.) 1. I have mixed feelings about Bob. Sometimes I think he likes me; other times I don’t. 2. I have mixed feelings about my trip to England. I love the people, but the climate upsets me.

Answer 15

*mixed feelings (about someone or something)

Question 16

involved in something, especially something wrong or illegal. (*Typically: be ~; get ~.) 1. The youth has had problems ever since he got mixed up in a group of boys that stole a car.

Answer 16

*mixed up in something

Question 17

involved with another person, possibly romantically. (*Typically: be ~; get ~.) 1. I hear that Sam is mixed up with Sally. 2. Who is Jerry mixed up with now?

Answer 17

*mixed up with someone else

Question 18

to mix or combine with people or substances. 1. The band came down from the stage and mixed in with the guests during the break. 2. The eggs won’t mix in with the shortening!

Answer 18

mix in (with someone or something)

Question 19

to fight with someone; to quarrel with someone. 1. Wilbur and Walt mixed it up for a while, and then things calmed down. 2. Richard came out of the shop and began to mix it up with Walt.

Answer 19

mix it up (with someone)

Question 20

to combine someone or something into something. 1. We will try to mix the new people into the group. 2. We will mix in the new people a few at a time.

Answer 20

mix someone or something into something & mix someone or something int

Question 21

to confuse someone. 1. Please don’t ask questions now; you’ll mix me up! 2. You mixed up the speaker with your question.

Answer 21

mix someone up†

Question 22

to get someone involved in something. 1. Please don’t mix me up in this problem. 2. Walter mixed up his daughter in the sordid affair.

Answer 22

mix someone up† in something

Question 23

Go to mistake someone for someone else.

Answer 23

mix someone up with someone else

Question 24

to complain about something. 1. What are you moaning about? 2. I am not moaning about anything.

Answer 24

moan about something

Question 25

to say something in a moan. 1. The injured woman moaned the name of her assailant out. 2. She moaned out the name.

Answer 25

moan something out†

Question 26

to groan because of pain or pleasure. 1. The patient moaned with pain and fear. 2. Ken moaned with pleasure.

Answer 26

moan with something

Question 27

to make a model or simulation of something. 1. The engineers mocked the new car design up for the managers to see. 2. They mocked up the new car design.

Answer 27

mock something up†

Question 28

to use something as a pattern for something; to use someone as a pattern for someone. 1. I will model my house on the house we saw in the Mediterranean. 2. She tried to model herself on her mother.

Answer 28

model someone on someone & model something on something