MOST COMMON PHRASAL VERBS.
Eventually reach some conclusion or
1. Postpone: put off
2. Explode or become bad (food): go off
3. Remove an item of clothing: take off
4. Start a journey: set off
5. Leave a bus, train or plane: get off
6. Start a journey: set off
7. Behave in a way that is intended to aCract
aCenDon or admiraDon, and that other
people oEen find annoying: show off
8. Cancel something: call off
9. Resist an illness: fight of
10. Remove or throw away something
unwanted: get rid of
11. Vomit: throw up
12. Eventually reach some conclusion or
desDnaDon: end up
13. Put something on a hook or hanger: hang
up
14. Use all of something, so that nothing is leE:
use up
15. Become large, inflated or bulging: swell up
– swelled – swollen
16. Stop trying something: give up
17. Reduce the length of a piece of clothing:
take up
18. Raise a child: bring up
19.
desDnaDon: end up
20. Become happier / make someone happier:
cheer up
21. Appear suddenly: turn up / show up
22. Fasten an item of clothing: do up
23. Rush and not waste Dme: hurry up
24. End a phone conversaDon: hang up
25. Rip into small pieces: tear up
26. Raise or menDon a topic / come near / a
problem happens or occurs: come up
27. Let someone get into your car and take
them somewhere: pick up
28. Compensate for: make up for
29. Decide if something is true: check out
30. Deal in a saDsfactory or successful way with
a problem or situaDon: sort out
31. Draw a line through something you have
wriCen, usually because it is wrong: cross
out
32. Finish, use, or sell all of something, so that
there is none leE: run out
33. Make clothes wider: let out
34. Use something so much that it is damaged
and cannot be used any more: wear out
35. Stop taking part in (a compeDDon, a
university, etc.): drop out
36. ExDnguish a fire: put out
37. Choose: pick out
38. Think about and find a soluDon / do
exercise: work out
39. Think of and express an idea: come up with
40. Become sick but not seriously: come down
with
41. Argue and stop being friendly with
someone: fall out with
42. Tolerate: put up with
43. Not be punished for doing something: get
away with
44. Reduce the amount you consume: cut
down on
45. Be confident that you can depend on
someone: count / rely on
46. Think less of a person: look down on
47. Two people like each other and are friendly
to each other: get on
48. Something starts to become popular or
fashionable / Someone begins to
understand: catch on
49. Reduce the amount you consume: cut
down on
50. Wait a short Dme: hang on
51. Visit informally and unexpectedly: drop by
52. Manage to survive / live: get by
53. It stops working; be unable to control your
feelings and to start to cry: break down
54. Disappoint: let down
55. Meet unexpectedly; collide with
something: run into
56. InvesDgate: look into
57. Make a piece of clothing narrower: take in
58. Submit something; give something to
someone in a posiDon of authority: hand /
turn / give in
59. Die: pass away
60. Have a holiday (oEen because you need a
rest): get away
61. Dispose of rubbish: throw away
62. Separate or fall apart on its own or due to
wear and tear. It oEen implies a natural or
unintended process of disintegraDon:
come apart
63. Lose control emoDonally / break into
pieces or become unusable due to damage,
wear and tear, or poor construcDon/ plans
or relaDonships go wrong: fall apart
64. Argue and stop being friendly with
someone: fall out with
65. Faint, lose consciousness: pass out
66. Compare prices: shop around
67. Change an opinion or see a new point of
view / Visit a person / Recover
consciousness: come around
68. Separate or fall apart on its own or due to
wear and tear. If oEen implies a natural or
unintended process of disintegraDon:
come apart
69. Find something unexpectedly: come across
70. Consider something: think over
71. Share similariDes or trains with one or both
of their parents: take a<er
72. Experience something, esp. something 8. What do you call a person who likes to
unpleasant or difficult: go through aBend par=es oCen
A party animal
73. Feel pleased and excited about something
that is going to happen: look forward to 9. What do you call a person who is hard-
hearted
74. Not to do something, oEen because of fear A cold fish
or because you do not want to make a bad
situaDon worse: hold back 10. What do you call a person who is very
par=cular about things/ irritable and hard
75. Take something (or someone) to a place to please
and leave it there: drop Fussy

76. Visit informally and unexpectedly: drop by 11. What do you call a person who gets up very
early
PERSONALITY VOCABULARY. An early bird

1. What do you call a person who is extremely 12. What do you call a person who is bad-
unpleasant and disagreeable tempered
Obnoxious Grumpy

2. What do you call a person whose behaviour 13. What do you call a person who is
or personality spoils other people's narcissis=c; self-centred; something which
enjoyment is useless
A party pooper Vain

3. What do you call a person who gets on with 14. What do you call a person who is mean;
people really well and is a good listener miserly
A people person S=ngy

4. What do you call a person who tends to 15. What do you call a person who talks a lot
dominate other people and tells them what ChaBy or chaBerbox
to do
A bossy boot 16. What do you call a person who is taking
your responsibility very seriously
5. What do you call a person who is not able Conscien=ous
to keep a secret
A big mouth 17. What do you call a person who stays up
un=l late
6. What do you call a person who is sensible A night owl
and realis=c
Down-to-earth 18. What do you call a person whose moods
change suddenly and they become angry or
7. What do you call a person who is bad or unhappy easily
very unpleasant / unkind Moody
Nasty
19. What do you call a person who is always
willing to do something
An eager beaver

20. What do you call a person who is

oversensi=ve; easily offended
Touchy

21. What do you call a person who has the

ability to find quick and wiBy fixes to any
trouble
Resourceful

22. What do you call a person who is polite and

considerate
Courteous

23. What do you call a person who has

adaptable and flexible nature
Versa=le

24. What do you call a person who is

emo=onally neutral; not easily excitable
Placid

25. What do you call a person who is relaxed

and doesn't get stressed or upset easily
Laid-back

26. What do you call a person who is thinking

that bad things are more likely to happen or
emphasising the bad part of a situa=on
Pessimis=c

27. What do you call a person who is fixated on

principles and tries to hold them as
undeniably true
Dogma=c