Phrasal Verbs Flashcards

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1
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To Perform a task

To perform an assignment

A

Carry out

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2
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To establish someone as something

To help establish

To provide sth for sb to start up sth

A

Set up

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3
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To clean

To learn/obtain

To get busy

To go faster

A

Pick up

Pick sth up

Pick up sth

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4
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Continue

Stop saying those things

Not so

I don’t believe you

A

Go on

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5
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To return to one’s origin/previous location

To break a promise

A

Go back

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6
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To (have) return(ed) to one’s origin/previous location

To retort

A return success

A

Come back

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7
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To try out for sth (usually sports)

To go out of fashion

To go out with sb for entertainment

To date sb

A

Go out

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8
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To select or indicate sb or sth (from a group)

A

Point out

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9
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Discover

Learn of

To discover facts about sb/sth

To learn a fact

A

Find out

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10
Q

To happen unexpectedly

A

Come up

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11
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To put makeup on oneself

To repay or redo sth

To create a story or a lie from no facts at all

To compensate for

A

Make up

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12
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To take charge

To assume control

A

Take over

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13
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To become

To turn out

To be presented/released to the public

A

Come out

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14
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To hurry up

To follow

To flirt aggressively

A

Come on

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15
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To receive or acquire sth

A

Come in

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16
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To be accepted

To happen

A

Go down

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17
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To settle/solve a problem

To turn out/to happen

A

Work out

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18
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To begin a journey or course

To define/describe

To design a plan

To undertake/attempt

A

Set out

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19
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To accept sb’s offer

To begin to deal with an issue

To shorten a skirt, dress or pants

A

Take up

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20
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To return

To repay one for a bad deed

To continue communicating with sb at a later time

A

Get back

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21
Q

To encamp or besiege

A

Sit down

22
Q

To end satisfactorily

To send sb out of somewhere

To manufacture/ produce sth

To be present/attend

To turn off/extinguish

A

Turn out

23
Q

To undertake/ assume

To employ

To acquire

To show great emotion

A

Take on

24
Q

To quit

To surrender

To abandon hope

A

Give up

25
Q

To arise

To ascend

To dress (as in costume)

A

Get up

26
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To search for information

To become more prosperous

A

Look up

27
Q

To continue with sth

To make a great fuss over sb or sth

To cry and become out of control about sb or sth

A

Carry on

28
Q

To increase

Happening

To be in the process of construction

A

Go up

29
Q

To get free/ away

To produce or complete

A

Get out

30
Q

To take sb on a date

Sth made to be taken away (as in food)/a restaurant that perform this service

A

Take out

31
Q

To drop

To descend to sb through inheritance

To attack/scold vigorously

A

Come down

32
Q

To write down, record

To attribute

To mercifully kill an animal

A

Put down

33
Q

To provide lodging for sb

To display or show

To offer sth

To build/erect sth

A

Put up

34
Q

To appear

To search for and find sth

To intensify or increase

To happen/occur

A

Turn up

35
Q

To make progress

To agree or be friendly

To advance in age

A

Get on

36
Q

To mention a person or thing

To raise a child

To vomit

To (cause to) stop quickly

A

Bring up

37
Q

To yield as profit or income

To present (for consideration) formally

To submit

A

Bring in

38
Q

To review past events

To return in thought

A

Look back

39
Q

To regard with disdain or scorn

Have contempt for

A

Look down

40
Q

To return

To return to consciousness

A

Bring back

41
Q

To fall apart

To have a physical or mental collapse

To itemize

To decompose

A

Break down

42
Q

To leave the ground and begin to fly

To become popular and successful

To begin to chase sth

To take a break from sth

To withdraw or remove from

To deduct

A

Take off

43
Q

To explode

To leave

To happen (as planned)

A

Go off

44
Q

To make sth happen

A

Bring about

45
Q

To take part in sth

To make an approach, as before an attack

A

Go in

46
Q

To cause to be ignited/exploded

To anger sb

To begin

A

Set off

47
Q

Irritated, bothered

To extinguish

To publish

To exert/apply

A

Put out

48
Q

To be vigilant or on guard

To afford a view

A

Look out

49
Q

To withdraw or cancel one’s statements

To regain ownership

To cause to remember

A

Take back

50
Q

To rob someone

To offer

To expose

To support

To hinder

To wait

A

Hold up