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Phrasal Verbs Part 2 Flashcards

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Join in

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Participate, take part

You’ll fell much better if you join in, instead of just watching everyone else have fun

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Keep on

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Continue doing smth

If u keep on being late for work, you’ll get in trouble

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Keep up with

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Stay at the same level/point

Gordon walks so fast no one can keep up with him

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Knock out (2)

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Defeat and remove from a competition

Steve Wilson has been knocked out of the us opening tennis championship by peter Collins

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Make unconscious

When I fell off the bike, my head hit the ground I was completely knocked out for about five minutes

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Leave out

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Not included

If you don’t like cinnamon, simply leave it out

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Let down

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Disappoint

Voters fell really let down by the government

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Let off

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Make a bomb, etc explode

Be very careful if you’re going to let off these fireworks

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Give little or no punishment

I can’t believe the teacher let Ben off with just a warning

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Line up

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Get/put into lines

The soldiers all lined up

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Live on

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Use as a source of money

I wanted the job, but I wouldn’t be able to live on the salary

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Look after

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Take care of

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Look down on

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Think that you’re better than

It annoys me the way Vera looks down on other ppl

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Look into

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Investigate

Police are looking into the theft

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Look out

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Be careful

Look out! Ur going to fall

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Look round

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Examine (a place)

We looked round the house but decided that it was too expensive for us

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Look up to

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Admire and respect

I’ve always looked up to my elder brother

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Look up

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Try to find inf in a book or list, etc

I’ll look Harry’s number up in the phone book

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Make off

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Escape

It seems that the burglars made off without being seen by dressing as postmen

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Make out (3)

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Pretend that smth is true

Neil tried to make out that he’d won the lottery but we all knew it wasn’t true

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See, hear or understand sb or smth with difficulty

Someone was waving at me in the distance but I couldn’t make out who it was.

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write all the necessary inf on a cheque, etc

Could you please make the cheque out to eurofinance limited?

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Make up (3)

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Become friends again after an argument

I had an argument with my bf, but we soon made up

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Invent an explanation, excuse, etc

As I got to school, I knew that I would have to make up an excuse for being late.

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create a story, poem, etc

Leo made up a poem about the English teacher

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Make up for

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Provide smth good, so that smth bad seems less important

When the concert was cancelled, my dad took us to the cinema to make up for it

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Make/head for

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Go in the direction of

It started to rain so we made for a nearby farmhouse

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Name after

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Give sb the same name as sb or smth else

My dad named his boat after his grandmother

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Narrow down

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Reduce the number of possibilities

I still haven’t decided which university to go to, but I’ve narrowed it down to about four

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Pass away

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Die

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Pass out
Suddenly become unconscious =faint
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Pick on
Keep treating someone badly or unfairly It's not fair when some of the bigger boys pick on the little ones
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Pick up
Stop in a vehicle to give someone a lift I'll pick u up from outside your house and we'll drive into town
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Plug in
Connect to the electricity supply I couldn't understand why the vacuum cleaner wasn't working and then I realised I hadn't plugged it in
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Pop in(to)
Visit quickly or for a short time Mom popped into the cake shop to get smth for after dinner
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Pull in
Stop by the side of a road with a car Could you pull in for a sec so that I can buy a chewing gum
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Pull through
Survive ( a serious illness) The doctors were really worried about Simon, but in the end he pulled through
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Put by
Save an amount of money for the future I try to put a little by each month for emergencies
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Put down(2)
Criticise, make someone feel stupid I wish u wouldn't keep putting me down in front of other ppl OR Kill (a sick/old animal) We used to have a horse but he fell and broke his leg so we had to put him down
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Put down to
Suggest that smth is the result of The minister put the recent economic problems down to the rise in oil prices
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Put forward
Suggest A number of suggestions were put forward during the meeting but none of them were very useful
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Put off (2)
Delay, postpone Wendy told me that the wedding has been put off until next January OR Make sb not want to do or not like smth I've never tasted blue cheese because the smell has always put me off
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Put on (2)
Gain (weight) I put so much weight over Christmas! OR Hold, perform (a show, play, etc) I read they they're putting Macbeth on at the luvvies theatre
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Put out
Make smth stop burning I'm afraid you'll have to put your cigarette out before you enter the building
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Put through
Connect by phone I'll just put u through to the supervisor, mrs Edwards
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Put up with
Tolerate You have to put up with a lot in this job, but it's worth in the end
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Run into
Meet by chance You'll never guess who I ran into in town this afternoon
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Run out of
Not have any left I'm afraid we've run out of time so I'd like to thank everyone for joining us
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Run over
Hit with a car Andrea was run over outside her house
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Sail through
Do smth or deal with smth very easily With a little bit of revision, u should sail through the exam
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Save up (for)
Save money little by little (For a specific purpose) I'm saving up for my holiday in India
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See off
Go to a train station, etc to see someone leave We all went to the bus station to see grandma off
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See through
Irecognise that smth is not true and not be tricked by it The guard saw through the woman's disguise and immediately arrested her
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See through (to)
Continue (or help to continue) to the end of smth unpleasant or difficult I'm not enjoying my computer course any more but I'll see it through to the end
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See to
Deal with Could u answer the door while I'll see to the baby?
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Set in
Start and be likely to continue for a while (for rain, winter, an economic depression, etc) Many birds fly south before winter sets in
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Set out(2)
Explain, describe OR arrange smth in a clear and detailed way I liked your composition but I think you need to set your ideas out more clearly by using paragraphs OR Start working on smth in order to achieve an aim In the beginning, we set out to build a successful company, but we never expected to become millionaires
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Set out/off
Start a journey As the sun rose, we took down our tents and set out across the desert
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Set to
Start doing smth in a determined or enthusiastic way We only had a few hours to get the party ready so we set to work quickly
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Set up
Start (a business, organisation, etc) You're such a good cook that I think u should set up a restaurant
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Settle down (2)
Become calm after being upset, etc Charlie was quite upset but he soon settled down and started to enjoy himself OR Stay in one place or get married and live quietly She spent her twenties traveling round the world and then settled down in a quiet village
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Show (a)round
Take sb on a tour of a place Let me show you round the garden
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Show off
Try to attract ppl's attention and make them admire u (usually used negatively) My sis thinks she's a good singer and she's always showing off when ppl come to visit
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Slow down
Decrease speed
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Speed up
Increase speed
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Stand for (2)
Represent (for abbreviations and symbols) BBC stands for British Broadcasting Corporation OR Put up with I wouldn't stand for it if someone spoke that rudely to me
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Stand in for
Do sb's job for them while they are not available John will be standing in for Jane while she's ill
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Stand out
Be easy to see by being different Molly has bright red hair so she always stands out in a crowd
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Stand up for
Support in an argument of fight I know that my bf will always stand up for me
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Take aback
Surprise (usually in passive voice) We were all taken aback by the news
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Take after
Look or behave like an older relative George really takes after his grandfather, doesn't he?
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Take down
Write down what someone says Could I just take down your details?
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Take in
Trick sb into believing smth that is not true He claimed to be a policeman, but I wasn't taken in
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Take off (3)
Become successful or popular very fast The iPod has really been taken off over the last couple of years OR Leave the ground The plane took off OR Remove (a piece of clothing) Carl took off his coat
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Take on(2)
Start to employ There's so much work to do in the office that maybe we should take on a secretary OR Accept (work or responsibility) I haven't got time to take on any more projects
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Take over
Take control of (a business,etc) When mr barker retired, his daughter took over the family business
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Take to(2)
Begin to like The class took to the teacher straight away OR Start (as a habit) I've taken to going for a five-mile run every morning
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Take up(2)
Start (a hobby, sport, etc) Why don't u take up a hobby? OR Fill an amount of space/ time Studying takes up most of my time at the momentów
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Tear down
Destroy or remove (for buildings, statues, etc) That old building was torn down to make way for a new supermarket
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Tear up
Rip into pieces Robin suddenly grabbed the letter out of my hand and tore it up
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Think over
Consider She said she'd have to think it over
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Throw away
Get rid of smth , discard The cd wouldn't play any more so I threw it away
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Try on
Put on (a piece of clothing) to see how it looks and whether it fits She took the dress to the dressing room to try it on
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Try out
Experiment with England needs to try out a few new players before the World Cup starts
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Turn down
Not accept (an offer, request, etc) I applied to join the Air Force, but they turned me down because of my eyesight
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Turn into
Change into smth different
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Turn off
Stop a machine working Would u please turn that stereo off and get ur hw done?
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Turn out
Develop in a particular way or have a particular result It turned out to be all right
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Turn over
Turn a page so that the other side is towards u If u all turn over, you'll see a table that shows how sales have gone this year
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Turn round
Go back in the opposite direction
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Turn up
Appear unexpectedly or without making a firm arrangement Victor hadn't been invited to the party but he just turned up anyway
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Wear off
Stop being effective (for a drug, etc) My arm started to hurt again as the effects of the painkiller wore off
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Wear out
Become old and unusable I had to get a new pair of trainers bc my old pair had worn out
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Work out
Find a solution to a problem, etc If you look at the context, maybe you can work out what the word means

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