Phrasal Verbs Unit 22

Question 1

Start to have/ give something more colour or light;
Start looking or feel happier
Become sunnier

Answer 1

Brighten up

Question 2

Practise and improve your skills or knowledge of smth

Answer 2

Brush up (on)

Question 3

Examine smth or someone in order to be certain that everything is correct;

Answer 3

Check out

Question 4

Make smth/ become more interesting or exciting;

Answer 4

Liven up

Question 5

Change or improve the appearance of smth or someone

Answer 5

Make over

Question 6

Make a mistake or do smth badly; make smth dirty or untidy; be the cause of someone’s problems

Answer 6

Mess up

Question 7

Hide a problem or disagreement rather than finding a satisfactory solution to it

Answer 7

Paper over

Question 8

Repair smth, often quickly and not very well;
Become friends after a fight;
Give basic medical treatment to sm injured

Answer 8

Patch up

Question 9

Improve

Answer 9

Pick up

Question 10

Reduce the importance, size and activity of an organisation

Answer 10

Run down

Question 11

Success in doing smth but not in an impressive way

Answer 11

Scrape through

Question 12

Improve the appearance of smth for ex by cleaning or painting it; make oneself look tidy and clean

Answer 12

Smarten up

Question 13

Be much more impressive or important than others; be easy to see because of being different

Answer 13

Stand out

Question 14

Make a surface look better with small improvements

Answer 14

Touch up

Question 15

Gradually become thinner and weaker over a period of time, usually because of an illness

Answer 15

Waste away

Question 16

Damage a vehicle so badly that it is not worth repairing; decide that someone or smth will not succeed and stop giving them your attention and energy

Answer 16

Write off