4th Vocabulary Entry

1. Take
    a) Take up
         Meaning: to begin or start a new hobby.


     b) Take out
          Meaning: to remove something to outside.


2. Break

    a) Break away
        Meaning: to leave something


     b) Break down
         Meaning: to become upset.


3. Make

    a) Make off
        Meaning: to hurry away, especially in order to escape.


    b) Make off with
        Meaning: to steal something and ( quickly ) take it away.


4. Laugh
 
    a) Laugh at
        Meaning: to treat lightly, scoff at.


    b) Laugh off
        Meaning: to dismiss as ridiculously or laughably trivial.


5. Breath

    a) Breath in
         Meaning: to take air into your lungs.


    b) Breath out
        Meaning: to send air out from your lungs.


6. Blow

    a) Blow out
        Meaning: to extinguish a fire or flame.


    b) Blow over
        Meaning: an argument or some trouble has come to an end.


7. Dig

     a) Dig in
         Meaning: to mix something into soil by digging.


      b) Dig into something
          Meaning: to start using a supply of something, especially money ; to try to find out about something unknown or secret.


8. Switch

    a) Switch on
        Meaning: to turn on something.


    b) Switch off
        Meaning: to turn off something.


9. Put

    a) Put away
        Meaning: to consume.


     b) Put on
         Meaning: to dress oneself with ; to wear ; to don.


10. Work

      a) Work against
          Meaning: to cause problems for someone or something, make it harder to achieve.


      b) Work off
          Meaning: to overcome the effects of something by doing something energetic or different.


Based on ' Adventures Growing Up ' article. 


1 Growing up
   Meaning: become larger or greater over a period of time.


2. Made up
    Meaning: invented, fictional.


3. Acted out
    Meaning: to perform in or as if in a play; represent dramatically.


4. Came up
    Meaning: occur.


5. Made out
    Meaning: to represent as being.


6. Picked up
    Meaning: to collect or gather.


7. Put together
    Meaning: to construct; create.


8. Set off
    Meaning: to direct attention to by contrast; accentuate.


9. Dropping off
    Meaning: set down or unload a passenger or goods.


10. Got into
      Meaning: to enter.


11. Turned down
      Meaning: to diminish the speed, volume, intensity, or flow of.


12. Switching on
      Meaning: turn an electrical device on.


13. Getting away
      Meaning: to leave or go away.


14. Making off
     Meaning: to depart in haste; run away.


15. Broke out
      Meaning: to emerge or escape.


16. Driving down
      Meaning: an organized effort to achieve something.


17. Got out
      Meaning: to leave or escape.


18. Took off
      Meaning: to go off; leave.