Phrasal verbs

be taken aback

• A. to stop employing (a worker)
• B. to give smb a ride in a vehicle, to collect smth
• C. to be surprised and confused
• D. 1) to see, hear or understand smth with difficulty, distinguish 2) to write a cheque

go with

• A. to draw attention to smth or smb
• B. 1) to see, hear or understand smth with difficulty, distinguish 2) to write a cheque
• C. to refuse, to reject
• D. to match or suit

get round

• A. 1) to solve or avoid a problem 2) (smb) to persuade smb to do what you want
• B. to delay doing smth until a later date
• C. to receive smth (e.g. money) after someone's death
• D. to try to find smth or smb

go through

• A. to escape
• B. to extinguish (a light, a cigarette)
• C. to destroy completely by tearing
• D. to examine

look forward to

• A. to fail to happen or to be completed (plans, arrangements)
• B. to represent or mean
• C. to think with pleasure about a future event
• D. to draw attention to smth or smb

work out

• A. to become covered by (spots, a rash)
• B. to solve a problem by calculation or study
• C. to delay doing smth until a later date
• D. 1) to destroy smth by explosion 2) to fill with air (a baloon)

soak up

• A. to lose consciousness
• B. to complete (a form)
• C. to absorb, to become filled with smth
• D. to enter somewhere illegally

see off (see smb off)

• A. to think that smb or smth is inferior
• B. to say goodbye to smb
• C. to use all of smth and have no more left
• D. to speak angrily to someone who has done something wrong

lay off

• A. 1) to separate (about a relationship) 2) to stop (an activity)
• B. to tell (someone) that you have done smth wrong, or that you are at fault
• C. to stop employing (a worker)
• D. to investigate, to carefully examine a situation and to try to find the reasons for it

pass out

• A. to stop employing (a worker)
• B. to lose consciousness
• C. to end, to interrupt, to discontinue
• D. to start, usually suddenly (e.g. war, epidemics)