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60 Cards in this Set
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Lay off
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To stop employing a worker, especially when there isn't much work to do
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Put up with
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To accept a bad situation or person without complaining
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Run out of
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Use all of something and not have any left
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Go without
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To live without something you need or usually have
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Wipe out
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To remove or destroy
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Come up with
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To think of an idea, plan, reply, etc.
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Come down with
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To become sick with a particular illness
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Carry out
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To do something that needs to be organized and planned
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Bring about
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To make something happen
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Figure out
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To understand, to decipher, to calculate.
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Check out
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Pay the bill
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Find out
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To gain knowledge
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Give up
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To renounce
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Hand out
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To distribute
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Pick up
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To take up (something), to collect or gather
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Put off
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To delay, postpone
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Take up
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To accept, to assume
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Throw away
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To fail to take advantage of, to get rid of as useless
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Try on
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To test or use experymentally
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Try out
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To undergo a competitive qualifying
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Turn on/off
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To begin or stop an operation
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Keep (something) on
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To continue or persist in
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See (something) through
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To provide support or cooperation
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Start (something) over
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To begin again
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Talk (something) into
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To persuade to by talking
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Carry on
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To engage in, maintain
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Cater to
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To provide special or favorable treatment
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Come across
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Find by accident
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Count on
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To rely or depend on
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Do without
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Manage without, not to require, abstain from
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Go after
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To pursue, to search, to keep
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Run into
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To meet or find by chance, to encounter (something)
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Hand in
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To deliver
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Hang up
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Hang up the phone
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Set up
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To establish, to assemble
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Help out
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To assist or aid (someone) especially by sharing the burden
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Call off
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To cancel, To restrain or recall
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Fill up
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To complete (a form, etc.); to make or become completely full
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Clear up
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To explain or solve, to put in order, to become brighter
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Keep away
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To refrain or prevent from coming (near)
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Turn around
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Turn abruptly and face the other way; improve dramatically
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Look up
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To search for and find; to visit; to become better, improve
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Put away
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To renounce, dsicard; to keep, confine; to bury
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Take away
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Sold for consumption away
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Talk over
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To consider thoroughly in conversation, discuss
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Put on
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To clothe oneself with
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Take off
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to remove as clothing, to rise into the air or begin flight
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Call up
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To summon to active military service
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Pay off
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To pay te full amount on (a debt)
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Pick out
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To choose or select
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Clean up
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To make clear or orderly,
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Turn up/down
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To increase or decrease the speed, volume, intensity or flow of
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Cheer up
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Cause (somebody) to feel happier
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Look over
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A swift cursory examination or inspection
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Leave out
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To cause to remain in teh open; to omit or exclude
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Come up (with)
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To bring forth, discover or produce
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Give back
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To return
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Bring up
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To take care of and educate (a child)
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Blow up
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To fill with air; To enlarge (a photo); to explode
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Cover up
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Hide from view or knowledge
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