UNIT 2: PHRASAL VERBS

C1

Brush up (on)

Practise and improve your skill or knowledge of something

Come (a)round (to)

Change your opinion or decision becasue someone has persuaded you ti agree with them

Come up with

Think of something such as an idea or plan

Face up to

Accept something and try to deal with it

Figure out

Be able to understand something or solve a problem; understand what someone is like and why they behave in the way they do

Hit upon

Suddenly have an idea; discover something by chance

Make out

See, hear or understand someone or something with difficulty; suggest, imply

Mull over

Think carefully about something over a period of time

Piece together

Learn the truth about something by considering all the seperate bits of information you have

Puzzle out

Solve a confusing or complicated problem by thinking carefully about it

Read up (on/about)

Get information on a particular subject by reading a lot about it

Take in

Understand and remember something that you hear or read; accept something as real or true; trick someone into believing something that is not true

Think over

Consider a problem or decision carefully

Think through

Consider the facts about something in an organised and thorough way

Think up

Invent or image something, especially an excuse