Phrasal Verbs- Unit 2

Question 1

Act out

Answer 1

to behave badly especially because you are feeling painful emotions such as fear or anger.

Question 2

Blow over

Answer 2

if an argument or unpleasant situation blows over, it ends or is forgotten

Question 3

Break out

Answer 3

sth unpleasant starts to happen (war, fire, fight BO)

Question 4

Break up

Answer 4

stop fighting/ make people live at place where they’re meeting or protesting/ to separate into small parts

Question 5

Bring about

Answer 5

to make sth happen/to cause, to take place

Question 6

Bring foward

Answer 6

to talk about or show something so that it can be seen or discussed by others.

Question 7

Bring back

Answer 7

to think about something from the past.

Question 8

Bring off

Answer 8

to succeed in doing something difficult.

Question 9

Bring out

Answer 9

to produce something that will be sold to the public.

Question 10

Bring sb around

Answer 10

to persuade someone to agree with you or to do what you want.

Question 11

Bring sb/sth into

Answer 11

cause sb/sth to be in a particular situation

Question 12

Bring sth up

Answer 12

to mention a subject or start to talk about it

Question 13

Bring up

Answer 13

to mention a subject or start to talk about it.

Question 14

Burst with

Answer 14

Be overfull with something, be unable to contain oneself with an emotion// BURSTING WITH crammed full of something

Question 15

Call for

Answer 15

ask publicly for something to be done

Question 16

Calm down

Answer 16

to become quiet and relaxed after you have been angry, excited, nervous, or upset, or to make smn become quiet and relaxed

Question 17

Carry out

Answer 17

to do sth that needs to be organised and planned

Question 18

Churn out

Answer 18

to produce large quantities of something, especially without caring about quality

Question 19

Cling on to sth

Answer 19

to continue to believe or do sth, even though it may not be true or useful any longer (cling to the hope/belief/idea etc (that)) // to stay in a position of power or stay ahead, when this is difficult, or to try to do this (an attempt to cling to power)

Question 20

Close sth off

Answer 20

to separate a road, room etc from the area around it so that people cannot go there or use it

Question 21

Come into

Answer 21

To conflict/to be at odds. To be different in a way that prevents

Question 22

Cook up

Answer 22

to develop gradually over a long period of time

Question 23

Cool down

Answer 23

to become calm after being angry

Question 24

Crop up

Answer 24

if a problem crops up, it happens or appears suddenly and in an unexpected way // if something such as a name or a subject crops up, it appears in something you read or hear

Question 25

Face off

Answer 25

to fight, argue, or compete with smn, or to get into a position in which you are ready to do this (Presidential candidates will face off in a debate this Friday)

Question 26

Fall off

Answer 26

To decrease

Question 27

Give in

Answer 27

to finally agree to do or accept sth that you had at first opposed, especially because smn has forced or persuaded you to // to accept that you are defeated in a game, fight, competition

Question 28

Go off

Answer 28

to explode or fire

Question 29

Grow out of

Answer 29

to be discovered to be; to prove to be;

Question 30

Gun down

Answer 30

to shoot a person with a gun and kill them

Question 31

Hinge on/upon sth

Answer 31

if a result hinges on sth, it depends on it completely

Question 32

Kick back

Answer 32

To relax (NAmE)

Question 33

Lash out

Answer 33

to blow // to make a sudden and angry attack (against smn)

Question 34

Lash out at sb

Answer 34

to suddenly speak angrily to smn or criticise smn angrily // to try to hit smn with a series of violent uncontrolled movements

Question 35

Lead on to sth

Answer 35

to cause something to develop or become possible at a later time

Question 36

Live up to

Answer 36

live up to a particular standard or promise, they do as well as they were expected to, do what they promised etc

Question 37

Mount up

Answer 37

to gradually increase in amount

Question 38

Play out

Answer 38

to happen or occur in usually a gradually way // to develop gradually over a long period of time

Question 39

Pour into

Answer 39

if people pour money into sth, they provide a lot of money for it over a period of time, in order to make it successful.

Question 40

Put sth back

Answer 40

to put people or things in the place or situation they were in before // to delay a process or activity by a number of weeks, months etc

Question 41

Put sth off

Answer 41

to delay doing sth or to arrange to do sth at a later time // to make you dislike sth or not want to do sth (Don’t let the restaurant’s decor put you off – the food is really good. Que te la baje)

Question 42

Rest on/upon

Answer 42

to depend on sth // to be based on a particular idea or set of facts

Question 43

Revolve around sth/sb

Answer 43

to have sth as a main subject or purpose

Question 44

Rub off

Answer 44

To start having (habits, quality, feeling) bc ppl around you has it // to remove something from a surface by rubbing it, or to come off a surface because of being rubbed

Question 45

Serve sth out

Answer 45

to complete a particular period of time in prison or doing a job

Question 46

Shrug sth off

Answer 46

to treat sth as unimportant and not worry about it

Question 47

Shut down

Answer 47

to stop operating or to cause a piece of equipment to stop operating

Question 48

Shut off

Answer 48

to stop the flow or supply of sth

Question 49

Sort it out

Answer 49

to successfully deal with a problem or difficult situation (BrE) // to succeed in making arrangements for something

Question 50

Sort itself out

Answer 50

(BrE) stops being a problem without you having to do anything

Question 51

Stave sth off

Answer 51

To stop sth bad happening for a while // to keep someone or something from reaching you or affecting you for a period of time

Question 52

Stem from

Answer 52

To result, issue or proceed from. To start/develop as the result of sth.

Question 53

Step away from

Answer 53

to stop being involved in sth:

Question 54

Step into

Answer 54

to start doing something, or become involved in a situation

Question 55

Stir sb/sth up

Answer 55

to cause arguments or bad feelings between people (To SU hostilities)

Question 56

Take sb on

Answer 56

to agree to do some work or be responsible for sth // to begin to have a particular quality or appearance // to compete against smn or start a fight with smn, especially smn bigger or better than you

Question 57

Take sth out on sb

Answer 57

to treat smn badly because you feel angry or frustrated

Question 58

Tamper with

Answer 58

to touch sth or make changes to it without permission, especially in order to deliberately damage it

Question 59

Tied to do sth

Answer 59

to be related to sth and dependent on it

Question 60

Tied to/ by sth

Answer 60

to be restricted by a particular situation, job etc, so that you cannot do exactly what you want

Question 61

Trade-off

Answer 61

to balance one situation or quality against another, in order to produce an acceptable result

Question 62

Triffle with sb/sth

Answer 62

to treat someone or something without respect or not in a serious way

Question 63

Wealth of sth

Answer 63

a lot of sth useful or good

Question 64

Wear sth out

Answer 64

to become damaged and useless, or to make something like this, by using it a lot or for a long time

Question 65

Wear sb out

Answer 65

to make someone feel extremely tired

Question 66

Weigh up

Answer 66

to calculate, estimate; to consider

Question 67

Work trough

Answer 67

to deal with problems or unpleasant feelings

Question 68

Yield sth up

Answer 68

show or produce sth hidden, or difficult to find or that people didn't know about.