Phrases

Question 1

Deliver on

Answer 1

To do what you promised or agreed to do

Question 2

Deliver over/up

Answer 2

To give sth/smone to a person in authority.

Question 3

Delve into

Answer 3

To examine something carefully in order to discover more info abt smone/sth

Question 4

Depart from

Answer 4

To be different from the usual or expected way of doing or thinking abt something.

Question 5

Depend on/upon

Answer 5

1. To need the help or support of something or someone in order to survive or continue as before.
2. If sth depends on a particular situation, condition or person,it is influenced by them or cannot change without them.

Question 6

Deprive of

Answer 6

To take sth imp away from someone or sth

Question 7

Derive from

Answer 7

To come from sth

Question 8

Descend from

Answer 8

To have developed from sth which existed in past

Question 9

Descend into

Answer 9

If a situation descends into a particular state,it becomes worse.

Question 10

Descend on/upon

Answer 10

1. If a grp of people descends on a place or person, they arrive, especially without warning or without being invited.
2. If a feeling, especially a bad feeling, descends on a grp of people, they begin to feel it

Question 11

Descend to

Answer 11

To behave badly in a way that other people would not expect you to

Question 12

Despair of

Answer 12

To feel that there is no hope that a situation will improve or that someone will do what they should.

Question 13

Detract from

Answer 13

To make sth seem less good than it really is or than it was thought to be.

Question 14

Devolve on/upon

Answer 14

1. If property or money devolves on someone,they receive it when the person who owns it dies.
2. To give power or the responsibility for something to a person or organisation at a lower level.

Question 15

Devolve to

Answer 15

To give power or the responsibility for something to a person or organisation at a lower level

Question 16

Devote to

Answer 16

1. To use all of sth for eg your life or your time, for a particular purpose.
2. To spend all your time or energy doing sth that you think is imp.

Question 17

Dial into

Answer 17

To connect one computer to another by using a modem

Question 18

Dial out

Answer 18

To use a telephone in order to call someone in another building.

Question 19

Hone in on sth

Answer 19

To find and go directly toward (someone or sth)

Question 20

Knock out sb

Answer 20

1.To make someone become unconscious or to make someone fall asleep
2. In a boxing match,the act of hitting the other fighter so that they fall to the ground &are unable to get up again within 10 sec.

Question 21

Abide by

Answer 21

To accept or obey an agreement,rule, or decision

Question 22

Abound in/with

Answer 22

To contain a lot of sth

Question 23

Accede to

Answer 23

1. To agree to sth that someone has asked for (eg. Request, demand), often after disagreeing with it.
2. If someone accedes to the throne or to the power, they become king or queen, they take a position of power.

Question 24

Accord with

Answer 24

To be the same as sth or to agree with sth.

Question 25

Account for

Answer 25

1. To explain the reason for sth or the cause of sth.
2. To form a particular amt of sth