Verbs/Phrasal Verbs Flashcards

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1
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To Brush up/on

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To Refresh knowledge

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2
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To Come round

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To be persuaded

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3
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To Come up with

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To Devise, To invent

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4
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To Face up to

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To Confront

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5
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To Hit upon

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To Guess right

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6
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To Make out

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To Distinguish

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7
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To Mull over

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Darle vueltas (Ponder)

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8
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To Read on/up/about

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To Research

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9
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To Swot up/on

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To study for an exam

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10
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To Take in

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To Understand, To absorb

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To Think over

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To Consider, To deliberate

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12
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To Think through

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To Consider fully

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13
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To Think up

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To Invent, To devise

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14
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To Baffle

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To Confuse, To mysitify

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15
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To Gather

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To Deduce

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16
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To Grasp

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To Understand something

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17
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To Ponder

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To think deeply

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18
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To query

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To interrogate

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19
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To reckon

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To believe that something is true

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20
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To cram

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To revise for exam

21
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To amend

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To make changes to a document to improve it

22
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To decay

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To decline, To decompose

23
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To endure

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To last

24
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To last

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To survive

25
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To sustain

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To support, To evidence

26
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To spoil

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To ruin

27
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To shift

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To change

28
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To remain

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To stay, to continue to be

29
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To distort

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To twist information

30
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To evolve

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To change over time

31
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To maintain

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To make something stay the same

32
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To mature

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To grow up

33
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To refine

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To improve

34
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To reform

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To correct something to improve it

35
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To revise

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To change an opinion about something

36
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To switch

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To exchange

37
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To sustain

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To provide conditions in which something can happen or exist

38
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To craft

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To make something skilfully

39
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To change around

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To move things so that they are in different places or positions

40
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To change out of

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To take off the clothes or a piece of clothing you are wearing and put on different ones

41
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To do away with

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To get rid of

42
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To do up

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To repair, paint and improve a car, boat, building; To fasten

43
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To fade away

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To disappear slowly

44
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To key in

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To put information into a device using keys or a keyboard

45
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To make into

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To change something so that they become something else

46
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To take apart

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To separate objects into pieces

47
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To test out

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To change or develop into something different

48
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To use up

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To use all of a supply of something

49
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To wear out

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To use something a lot so that it no longer works.