Phrasal Verbs Quiz

Vocabulary

• Exaggeration: making something seem better or worse than it really is (مبالغة)
• Foresight: the ability to see things that can happen in the future (رؤية مستقبلية)
• Gut instinct: taking a decision by feeling rather than reason (غريزة)
• Interpret: to decide what is the meaning of something (يدرك)
• Spur: something that encourages someone to do things (حافز)
• Persuasion: the ability to make someone believe that something is true (اقناع)
• Javelin: a long spear used in sports competitions (رمح)
• Potential: having or showing the capacity to become or develop into something in the future (امكانية)
• Hurdle: one of a series of small fences that a person or horse has to jump over during a race (حاجز)
• Inch (v.): to move very slowly in a specific direction (يتقدم ببطئ)
• Dip: a decrease in the amount of something (نقص)
• Insurmountable: describing a problem that cannot be dealt with successfully (ال يتخطى)
• Assertive: behaving in a confident way, so that people notice you (جازم)
• Detrimental: tending to cause harm (ضار)
• Imagery: visually descriptive or figurative language, especially in a literary work (مصور)
• Nerve-racking: making someone feel tense and nervous (مرهق لالعصاب)
• Underestimate: not to realize how great or large something is (التقليل من شأن)
• Self-assurance: self-confidence (الثقة بالنفس)
• Surpass: to do something better than someone else (يتجاوز)
• Forthcoming: an event that has been planned for and will happen soon (قادم)
• Sincere: honest and true, and based on what you really feel and believe (صادق)
• Resolution: a firm decision to do or not to do something (قرار)
• Breakthrough: an important new discovery in something you are studying, especially one made after trying for a long time (انجاز)
• Enroll: officially register as a member of an institution or a student on a course (يلتحق)
• Ethics: moral principles that govern a person's behavior or the conducting of an activity (اخالق)
• Influential: having a great effect on something (مؤثر)
• Acquaintance: someone you know, but who is not a close friend (صديق غير مقرب)
• Prosperity: doing well financially (ازدهار)
• Social Background: someone's status or rank in society (خلفية اجتماعية)
• Backing: money received from someone or a company (دعم)
• Well-rounded education: well-developed education in all aspects (تعليم راقي)

Phrasal Verbs

• Be in contention for something: to have a chance of winning something
• Keep at something: to continue to do something although it is difficult
• Plug away at something: to keep trying very hard to do something even though it is difficult
• Mark off: to put a line through an item on a list to show that it has been completed or dealt with
• Concentrate on: to give all your attention to something
• Run through: to read or think of a list of items quickly
• Lose sight of: no longer to pay attention to something
• Strive for: to make great effort to do or get something
• Drop out of: to leave without finishing something that was started
• Be saddled with: to be put in a position where one has to deal with a problem
• Be carried away: to behave in a silly way
• Carry Off: to succeed in doing something difficult
• Carry On: to continue
• Carry Out: to start doing something
• Carry Over: to allow something to continue in a situation
• Carry Through: to succeed in putting an idea into practice
• Wear Away: to become thin and eventually disappear due to long use
• Wear Down: to reduce the motivation of someone
• Wear Off: to disappear slowly till no feeling
• Wear On: to seem to pass very slowly
• Wear Out: to use something a lot till it becomes damaged or unusable
• Wear Through: to develop a hole where the material has been weakened
• Wake up to: to realize that something is important
• Compliment someone on: to make a polite remark to show that one approves of someone's appearances or work
• Compensate for: to pay someone for something they lost
• Take issue with: to disagree with and start arguing about something
• Live off: to get money from something or someone and use it in order to live

Phrases and Idioms

• Block out a thought: to try not to think about something
• Channel one's efforts into something: to attempt to do one thing rather than a wider range of things, to concentrate on something
• Set a goal: to decide on what one hopes to achieve
• Pursue a goal: to make efforts to achieve something, often over a long period of time
• Push beyond one's limits: to try to do something new or difficult, something that requires effort
• Claw one's way: to move somewhere with great difficulty, trying desperately to find things to hold on to
• Put something into perspective: to judge the importance of something by considering it in relation to everything else
• Voice one's concern about: to express a worry about something