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Phrasal Verbs Flashcards

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Apply for

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Transitive and inseparable
Make a formal request for something
Megan has applied for a better job.

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Break down

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Intransitive inseparable
Stop working
Oh no ! The lift had broken down again.

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Break up

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Intransitive inseparable
End a relationship
Cindy and Malcolm have a broken up again.

Transitive e separable
Destroy . They broke the ship up for scrap

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Bring out

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Transitive and - separable
Introduce
They have brought out a new edition of the book

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Bring up

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Transitive and separable
Raise, pull up , build , levantar , increase
His grandmother brought out a new edition of the book

Raise a topic
Someone brought up the subject of parking at the meeting .
To be brought up on a diet of football / vegan food

Grow up

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Type 1 Intransitive

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These phrasal verbs need no object.
These plane took off at 6am
The washing machine broke down yesterday

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Type 2

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Transitive and separable
These phrasal verbs need an object . The object can go either between the verb and particle , or after particle
I turned the light on /
I turned on the light
Watch out
When the object is a pronoun, it MUST go between the verb and particle
My dad picked me up from the station
Wrong : my dad picked up me from the station

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Type 3

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Transitive and inseparable
These phrasal verbs need an object. The object can only come after both the verb and particle.
We sometimes look after our niece

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Type 4

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Transitive and inseparable with two particles
These phrasal verbs need an object . The object can’t go between the verb and particles .
I’m looking forward to meeting your parents . Três ou mais 😛

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Bump into

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Transitive and inseparable
Meet by chance
Guess who I bumped into at the supermarket ?

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Calm down

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Transitive and separable
Become less emotional
When he fell,
Shiona calmed him down and cleaned his cut knee.

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Carry on

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Intransitive and inseparable
Continue .
If we carry on like this we won’t have any money left .

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Catch on

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Intransitive and inseparable
Become popular : this new fashion will never catch on .

Finally understand : I didn’t understand him at first , but I eventually caught on.

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Chill out

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Intransitive
CHILL OUT
Relax . At the end of the day I like to chill out in front of telly .

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Click on

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CLICK ON
Transitive and inseparable
Select (on a computer )
Just click on that icon to open the life .

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Come across

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COME ACROSS
Transitive and inseparable
Find, often by chance
They came across some hidden treasure while they were building the house

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Come along

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COME ALONG
Intransitive inseparable
Join a trip or an activity
You are very welcome to come along this evening.

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Come up

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COME UP
Intransitive inseparable
Appear/occur / arise
I can’t see you tonight , something has come up at work

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Come up with

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COME UP WITH
Transitive , inseparable with two particles .
Have an idea .
We’ve come up with a great solution to the problem .

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Cut down on

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CUT DOWN ON
Transitive, inseparable with two particles
Reduce the amount you consume : if you can’t stop smoking at least try to cut down on how many cigarettes you have a day .

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Deal with

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DEAL WITH
Transitive and inseparable 
Take action
We need to deal with the problem
Before it gets worse
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Dress up

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Dress Up
Intransitive
Wear your best clothes : it’s a special occasion so we should dress up

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End up

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End Up
Intransitive
Finish, often in an unexpected way or place : we followed our GPS and ended up at the top of
A mountain

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Fall out

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Fall out
Intransitive
have a serious argument: They fell out 30 years ago and haven’t spoken to each other since .

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Fall over

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Fall over
Intransitive
Fall : He slipped on the ice and immediately fell over

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Fall through

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Fall through
Intransitive
Collapse / fail to happen:
Plans to make the book into a film fell through

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Find out

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Find out
Transitive separable
Discover / learn information : can you find out the train times to Milan?

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Fit in

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Fit in
transitive separable
Find the time to do something :
The doctor can FIT you IN at six o’clock

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Get Away

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Get Away
Intransitive
Escape
We tried to catch the thieves but they manage to get away .

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Get in

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Get in
Intransitive
Arrive at work/school/home : What time did Miriam get in today ?

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Get into

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Get into
Transitive inseparable
Become involved in something :
He got into role-playing games when he was still at school

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Get on

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Get on
Intransitive
Have a good relationship
We’ve been getting on better recently

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Get over

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Get over
Transitive inseparable
Recover from an illness : It took him ages to get over the flu last winter .

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Give away

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Give away
Transitive separable
Distribute :
She gave away her money to the dogs’ home.

Tell a secret Mum accidentally told Dad about the party and gave away the surprise

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Give up

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Give up
Transitive separable
Stop doing. She gave up playing tennis after the twins were born

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Go along

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Intransitive
Go to an event
We went along to the meeting .

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Go along with

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Go along with
Transitive inseparable
Agree or support
I’m happy to go along with that suggestion.

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Go away

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Go away
Intransitive
Leave:
please go away , I’m trying to finish my homework

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Go down

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Go down
Intransitive become lower
House prices have gone down again this month

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Go down with

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Go down with
transitive inseparable
Become ill:
They all went down with a terrible stomach bug

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Go for

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Go for
Transitive inseparable
Choose / select
I think we should go for the green one

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Go into

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Go into
Transitive inseparable
Enter / join a profession
She went into the police when she left school

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Go off

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Go off
Intransitive
Leave : He went off to school in a very bad mood

Lose it’s freshness
This butter tastes strange; I think it has gone off

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Go on

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Go on
Intransitive
Happen
What’s going on, why is there so much noise

Complain: Stop going on like that - there’s nothing we can do

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Go out

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Go out
Intransitive
Leave the home: there’s nothing on telly, why don’t we go out

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Go up

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Go up
Intransitive
Increase
Unemployment keeps going up.

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Grow into

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Intransitive

Develop over time and become . Their small family business grew into an international company

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Grow up

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Grow up
Intransitive
Become an adult: Shakespeare grew up and went to school in this town .

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Help out

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Transitive separable
Assist :
Our neighbor helped us out with moving the furniture

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Join in

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Join in
Transitive inseparable
Participate :
Don’t be shy ! Everyone can join in

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Keep up with

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Keep up with
Transitive inseparable
StAy at the same level
I’m no good at maths, I can’t keep up with the rest of the class

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Knock down

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Knock down
Transitive separable
Demolish:
They knocked down the old hospital and built a modern one .

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53
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Light up

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Light up
Transitive separable
Illuminate:
The firework display lit up the sky -
It was amazing
54
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Live on

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Live on
Transitive inseparable
Survive :
I don’t know how they live on such a small salary.

55
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Look after

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Look after
Transitive inseparable
Take care of :
Can you look after the children this evening ?

56
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Look for

A

Look for
Transitive inseparable
Try to find :
I’m looking for my car keys , has anyone seen them ?

57
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Look forward to

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Look forward to
Transitive inseparable
To be excited about something that is going to happen :
We’re really looking forward to seeing Maria again after so many years .

58
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Look into

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Look into
Transitive inseparable
Investigate
A team is looking into the cause of the fire

59
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Look round

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Look round
Transitive inseparable
Visit : after we unpacked we looked round the old down

60
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Look up

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Look up
Transitive separable
Consult / check
I looked their number up in the phone book

61
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Meet up

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Meet up
Transitive inseparable
Meet other people to do something
We met up outside the station and went clubbing

62
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Mess up

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Mess up
Transitive separable
Spoil : she messed up the job interview by arriving late

63
Q

Move in

A

Move in
Intransitive
Begin living a new home:
When we moved in we redecorated the house .

64
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Pass on

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Pass on
Transitive separable
Transmit (knowledge or disease ) : Grandma passed on her secret recipe

65
Q

Pass out

A

Pass out
Intransitive
Faint :
It was so hot on the underground I passed out

66
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Pick up

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Pick up
Transitive separable
Go and collect :
Can you pick up my dress from the dry-cleaner’s ?

Cara an illness : she picked up can eye art he swimming pool

Learn (a skill / a language) Hannah picked up Italian after just six months

67
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Point out

A

Point Out
transitive separable
Draw someone’s attention to: she pointed out there was a spelling mistake on the poster

68
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Put away

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Put away
Transitive separable
Store: we need to put away the decorations for another year .

69
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Put off

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Put off
Transitive separable
Discourage : the weekend course put him off becoming a soldier.

Delay : we’ve put the trip off until next week .

70
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Put on

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Put on
Transitive separable
Wear a piece of clothing
Put on your coat, it’s cold outside .

71
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Put up

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Put up
Transitive separable
Install / fix in place : we need to put up some bookshelves in the sitting room
To put up a house ( to build)

72
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Put up with

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Put up with
Transitive inseparable
Support / tolerate I can’t put up with your behavior any more .
I’m leaving

73
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Run out

A

Run out
Transitive separable
Consume completely
Oh no, we’ve run out of milk .

74
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Save up

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Save up
Transitive separable
Gradually save money: People used to save up until they could afford to buy something

75
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Set off

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Set off
Intransitive
Begin a journey: They set off on a five-year voyage around the world .

76
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Show round

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Show round
Transitive separable
Act as a guide
Paula showed us round the new sport’s centre.

77
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Sort out

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Sort out
Transitive separable
Organize / find a solution

When Grandad died it took months to sort out all his papers.

78
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Stand out

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Stand out
Intransitive
Be obviously different: She is an excellent student who stands out from all the others.

79
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Stay ahead

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Stay ahead
Intransitive
Remain in front : it’s getting more difficult to stay ahead of our rivals

80
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Take off

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Take off
Intransitive
Leave in a plane: The plane took off on time .

Transitive separable
Remove clothing
I’m going to take off my tie, it’s so uncomfortable

81
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Take over

A

Take over
Intransitive
Assume control
I’d like you to take over the shop while I’m on holiday.

82
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Take up

A

Take up
Transitive separable
Begin something new: I’m going to take up golf when I retire.

83
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Think about

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Think about
Transitive inseparable
Consider
She’s thinking about studying abroad for a year

84
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Think up

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Think up
Transitive separable
Invent
She spent the journey thinking up an excuse for why she was late

85
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Throw away

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Throw away
Transitive separable
Discard : she threw away his favourite trainers whitout telling him

86
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Try out

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Try out
Transitive separable
Test. I’d like you to try out this new washing powder and tell me what you think .

87
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Turn down

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Turn down
Transitive separable
Reduce the level: can you turn down the music ?
I’m trying to concentrate .

Refuse she turned down the job because lithe salary was too low .

88
Q

Turn into

A

Turn into
Transitive separable
Transform
They’ve turned the old cinema into a bowling alley

89
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Turn off

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Turn off
Transitive separable
Switch off/stop
Don’t forget to turn off the computer

90
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Turn up

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Turn up
Intransitive
Arrive / often unexpectedly : you can’t just turn up at their door - phone them first

Transitive separable
Increase the level. Turn it up !
I love this song !

91
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Work out

A

Intransitive
Take a exercise / calculate
She works out at the gym twice a week.

Transitive separatable calculate
I can’t work out the answer to this problem, can you help ?

92
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To stick with

A

Transitive separable
To keep doing sth
To not give up

93
Q

Call for

A 
Transitive inseparable 
Call for (to pick sb up )
94
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To do sth up

A

Decorate

95
Q

To go to bed

A

To turn in

96
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To turn on sb

A

Betrayal , politician , king , friends , boss

97
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To turn in

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Go to bed

98
Q

To look after sb/sth

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To protect

99
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To get at sth

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To reach with your hand usually sth high

100
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To cut down / on the number of soft drinks

Amount of sugar (uncountable)

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Reduce

101
Q

To put sth forward (not informal)

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To suggest

Does any awe want to put forward an idea

102
Q

To hold / hang on

A

To wait

103
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Set up

A

Establish

To set up a business

104
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To take sth a part

A 
To pull sth a part 
To dismantle ( desmontar )
105
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To put sb/sth in danger

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To endanger

106
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To pop down

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To pop down to the supermarket = go there quickly , do what you need to do and return

107
Q

Crammed with

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Full of

108
Q

Acute

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Sharp , aguçado

109
Q

To hand sth down to sb

A

Pass on information for future generation

110
Q

Take on

A

Take on contract employees

111
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Line up

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Line up stand or be arranged in a straight row (alinhar )

Had someone or sth ready or prepared .

112
Q

Miss out

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Miss sth or sb out

Fail to include , omit

113
Q

Be Cut out for

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Have exactly the right qualities for a particular role or job

114
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Cut out for

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Suited , adequado

115
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From scratch

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With nothing behind me

116
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Keep in with

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Be friendly with

117
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Keep on

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Keep on doing
Keep on at it

Don’t give up

118
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Tell off

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To say in a strong way
Like a mother with their children.

To tell sb off doing sth
To tell sb for doing sth

119
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To come down with

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To come down with - the flu
- a could
To catch / get a could

Just those , not others illness

120
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To make do with

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To make do with to use what you have available

121
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To make up with

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To reconcile with sb

122
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To take sth in

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Understand / information into your brain

123
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To settle down

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Calm down

124
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To catch on

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Become popular

125
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To be called up

A

Military service

For jury duty

126
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Start off

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Begin

127
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Go together

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Coincide

128
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Cut out

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Remove

129
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Come up against

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Be faced with or opposed by

130
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Spring up

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Suddenly appear

131
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Jot down

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Write down, make note of

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