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Building Your Phrasal Verb Vocabulary - 2

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This series of exercises helps you build your basic phrasal verb vocabulary. Choose the correct definition for the phrasal verbs in the second list from the first list.

Once you have matched up all the definitions with the phrasal verbs, check your answers on the next page. Page three then tests the phrasal verbs you have learned in practice sentences.

  • stop doing something
  • leave (on a journey)
  • apologize or regret having said something
  • invent a story
  • tolerate
  • deny
  • review
  • separate
  • begin a new activity
  • become angry
  • employ
  • finish
  • criticize
  • find by chance
  • come across _____
  • blow up _____
  • make up _____
  • run out _____
  • tell off _____
  • break up _____
  • give up _____
  • take up _____
  • turn down _____
  • set off _____
  • take back _____
  • take on _____
  • put up with _____
  • go over _____

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