Topic Vocabulary and Phrasal Verbs Review

Detailed vocabulary flashcards based on lecture notes covering phrasal verbs, topic contrasts, and collocations across fourteen units ranging from Hobbies and Science to Law, Food, and Travel.

Bring forward

Change the date/time of an event so it happens earlier

Knock out

Defeat and remove from a competition; make unconscious

Carry on

Continue

Get round to

Start (after planning to do sth for a long time)

Get up to

Do; do sth you should not do

Go in for

Enter (a competition, etc); like

Go off

Stop liking

Join in

Participate, take part

Pull out

Stop being involved in an activity

Put off

Delay, postpone

Put up with

Tolerate

Take to

Start (as a habit)

Take up

Start (a hobby, sport, etc); fill an amount of space/time

Break down

Stop working (for a machine, etc)

Carry out

Perform an experiment, etc

Come off

Succeed

Come on

Develop or make progress

Come up with

Think of (an idea, a plan, etc)

Cut off

Stop the supply of sth

Find out

Discover information, etc.

Give off

Produce sth such as heat or a smell

Narrow down

Reduce the number of possibilities

Plug in

Connect to the electricity supply

Put through

Connect by phone

Turn into

Change into sth different

Turn off

Stop a machine working

Work out

Find the solution to a problem, etc

Back down

Stop demanding sth, stop saying that you will do sth

Break out

Escape (from prison) or start suddenly (for a war, fire, etc)

Bring in

Introduce a new law or system

Chase after

Follow sb/sth quickly in order to catch them

Come forward

Offer help or information

Get away with

Escape punishment for

Go off (Weapon)

Explode; be fired (for a gun, usually accidentally)

Hold up

Rob while threatening violence; delay

Let off

Give little or no punishment; make a bomb, etc explode

Look into

Investigate

Make off

Escape

Take down

Write down what someone says

Take in

Trick sb into believing sth that is not true

Drop in (on)

Visit unexpectedly

Get on for

Be almost a particular time, number, age, etc

Go off (Food)

Be no longer fresh

Go on

Continue happening or doing sth; do sth after doing sth else

Go/Come round

Go/come to sb's house to visit them

Keep on

Continue doing sth

Leave out

Not include

Run into

Meet by chance

Run out of

Not have any left

Try out

Experiment with

Turn out

Develop in a particular way or have a particular result

Turn up

Appear unexpectedly or without making a firm arrangement

Catch on

Understand or become popular or fashionable

Come (a)round (to)

Be persuaded to change your mind (about)

Cross out

Draw a line through sth written

Dawn on

If something dawns on you, you realise it for the first time

Deal with

Handle, cope with

Drop out (of)

Leave school, etc before you have finished a course

Get at

Try to express

Get on with

Continue doing

Give in

Stop making an effort to achieve sth difficult

Keep up with

Stay at the same level as

Sail through

Do something or deal with something very easily

Set out

Explain, describe or arrange sth in a clear and detailed way or start working on sth in order to achieve an aim

Think over

Consider

Call for

Require; need; demand

Call off

Cancel

Clear up

Become brighter and better (for weather)

Cut off (Place)

Make a place difficult or impossible to enter, leave or communicate with; disconnect

Die down

Become less noisy, powerful or active

Do up

Repair, paint or improve

Face up to

Accept sth and try to deal with it

Get (sb) down

Make sb feel sad or lose hope

Put down to

Suggest that this is the result of

Put out

Make something stop burning

Set in

Start and be likely to continue for a while (for rain, winter, an economic depression, etc)

Stand for

Represent (for abbreviations and symbols); put up with

Tear down

Destroy or remove (for buildings, statues, etc)

Throw away

Get rid of; discard

Bring on

Cause (an illness, etc)

Come down with

Start to suffer from a minor illness

Come round/to

Become conscious

Cut down (on)

Do less of (smoking, etc); reduce an amount of

Feel up to

Feel well enough to do

Get over

Recover from (an illness, etc)

Give up

Stop doing sth you do regularly

Look after

Take care of

Pass out

Suddenly become unconscious

Pull through

Survive (a serious illness, etc)

Put down (Animal)

Kill (a sick/old animal)

Put on (Weight)

Gain (weight)

Wear off

Stop being effective (for a drug, etc)

Ask after

Ask for news about

Bring up

Look after a child until he or she becomes an adult or start discussing a subject

Fall for

Fall in love with; believe (a lie/trick/etc)

Fall out (with)

Have an argument with and stop being friends

Get on (with)

Have a good relationship (with)

Grow up

Become older

Look down on

Think that you are better than

Look up to

Admire and respect