Verbs/Phrasal Verbs Flashcards
(49 cards)
1
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To Brush up/on
A
To Refresh knowledge
2
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To Come round
A
To be persuaded
3
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To Come up with
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To Devise, To invent
4
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To Face up to
A
To Confront
5
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To Hit upon
A
To Guess right
6
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To Make out
A
To Distinguish
7
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To Mull over
A
Darle vueltas (Ponder)
8
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To Read on/up/about
A
To Research
9
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To Swot up/on
A
To study for an exam
10
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To Take in
A
To Understand, To absorb
11
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To Think over
A
To Consider, To deliberate
12
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To Think through
A
To Consider fully
13
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To Think up
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To Invent, To devise
14
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To Baffle
A
To Confuse, To mysitify
15
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To Gather
A
To Deduce
16
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To Grasp
A
To Understand something
17
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To Ponder
A
To think deeply
18
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To query
A
To interrogate
19
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To reckon
A
To believe that something is true
20
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To cram
A
To revise for exam
21
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To amend
A
To make changes to a document to improve it
22
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To decay
A
To decline, To decompose
23
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To endure
A
To last
24
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To last
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To survive
25
To sustain
To support, To evidence
26
To spoil
To ruin
27
To shift
To change
28
To remain
To stay, to continue to be
29
To distort
To twist information
30
To evolve
To change over time
31
To maintain
To make something stay the same
32
To mature
To grow up
33
To refine
To improve
34
To reform
To correct something to improve it
35
To revise
To change an opinion about something
36
To switch
To exchange
37
To sustain
To provide conditions in which something can happen or exist
38
To craft
To make something skilfully
39
To change around
To move things so that they are in different places or positions
40
To change out of
To take off the clothes or a piece of clothing you are wearing and put on different ones
41
To do away with
To get rid of
42
To do up
To repair, paint and improve a car, boat, building; To fasten
43
To fade away
To disappear slowly
44
To key in
To put information into a device using keys or a keyboard
45
To make into
To change something so that they become something else
46
To take apart
To separate objects into pieces
47
To test out
To change or develop into something different
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To use up
To use all of a supply of something
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To wear out
To use something a lot so that it no longer works.
