FACE UP TO PHRASALS
FIND OUT ABOUT

#Meaning: if you find out about something, you discover a fact or information that you did not know before, often
because someone was keeping it secret.

#Grammar: This phrasal verb needs an object. You can not separate the verb from its particles.
He found out about the theft - RIGHT
He found out about it - RIGHT
He found the theft out about - WRONG
He found it out about - WRONG
He found out the theft about - WRONG
He found out it about - WRONG
#Example sentence: Jonathan didn't find out about the missing money until the police wrote to him.
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#Synonyms: discover, catch on to, detect, unearth
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CHEAT ON

#Meaning: if you cheat on somebody, (your husband, wife, boyfriend or girlfriend) you secretly have a sexual or romantic relationship with someone else.

#Grammar: This phrasal verb must have an object. You can not separate the verb from its particle.
He cheated on his wife - RIGHT
He cheated on her - RIGHT
He cheated her on - WRONG
He cheated his wife on - WRONG
#Example sentence: Juliet finally decided to divorce her husband when she caught him cheating on her with their next-door neighbour.
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#Synonyms: betray, be unfaithful to, do the dirty on, mess around, two-time
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FACE UP TO PHRASALS
TELL ON
#Meaning: if you tell on somebody, you give information about someone, usually about something bad that they have said or done, to a person in authority (like a teacher, boss or parent), knowing that this will probably result in punishment.

#Grammar: This phrasal verb must have an object. You can not separate the verb from its particle.

He told on his sister - RIGHT
He told on her - RIGHT

He told her on - WRONG
He told his sister on - WRONG

#Example sentence: When I was a child I used to steal apples from the tree in the neighbour's garden but my brother told on me and my father grounded me for a month.
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#Synonyms: inform (on), grass (on), sneak (on)
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MAKE UP
#Meaning: if you make something up, you invent an untrue story or explanation, often in order to
hide the truth.
#Grammar: This phrasal verb must have an object. The object can go between the verb and particle, or after the particle. If you want to use a pronoun, it must go between the verb and particle.
She made up an excuse - RIGHT
She made an excuse up - RIGHT
She made it up - RIGHT
She made up it - WRONG
#Example sentence: Charlie didn't want to admit that he hadn't done his homework, so he made up a
story about leaving it on the bus.
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#Synonyms: invent, devise, concoct, fabricate, cook up, manufacture, come up with
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friend
amigo
chum
dude
mate
comrade
buddy
pal
companion
bloke
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fat
plump
corpulant
chubby
to be in fine fettle
meaty
stout
fleshy

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🕸Mude
🕸Mate
🕸Comrade
🕸Buddy
🕸Pal
🕸Companion
🕸Bloke
🕸Hommie
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🔰caustic adjective (CHEMICAL)
 UK ​ /ˈkɔː.stɪk/ US ​ /ˈkɑː.stɪk/
Ⓜ️To Burn or corrode organic tissue by chemical action
Ⓜ️caustic chemical burns or 
destroys things, especially anything made of living cells:
🔅a caustic substance
🔰Caustic: synonyms
▪️Corroding
▪️Mordant
▪️Acid
▪️Alkaline
▪️Burning
▪️Stinging
▪️Acrid
▪️Harsh
▪️Destructive
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🔰impeccable adjective
UK ​ /ɪmˈpek.ə.bəl/ 
US ​ /ɪmˈpek.ə.bəl/
Ⓜ️perfect, with no problems or bad parts:
🔅his record is impeccable.
🔰Synonyms : impeccable
▪️flawless
▪️faultless
▪️perfect
▪️free from sin
▪️pure
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🔰lesson noun [ C ]
🔵collocations
Pattern: Verb+a lesson
🔺attend
🔻go to
🔺have
🔻take
🔺give
🔻offer
🔺provide
🔻teach
🔺get
🔻prepare
🔹skip
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🔰catch verb (TAKE HOLD)
🔵collocations: catch+
🔺a thief
🔻fire
🔺a cold
🔻the flu
🔺someone's attention
🔻a ball
🔺someone's eye
🔻your breath
🔺a train
🔻a bus
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🔰Synonyms :
for people who speak a lot
▪️wordy
▪️chatty
▪️gabby
▪️mouthy
▪️gossipy
▪️yakking
▪️verbose
▪️talkative
▪️babbling
▪️rambling
▪️garrulous
▪️loquacious
▪️long-winded
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🔰decry verb [ T ]
UK ​ /dɪˈkraɪ/ 
US ​/dɪˈkraɪ/ formal
Ⓜ️to criticize something as bad, without value, or unnecessary, blame, criticize :
🔅let no one decry the work as being derogatory to the dignity of man or students.
🔅You were right to decry the corruption of George Sibley's rule.
🔰Synonyms: Decry
▪️abuse
▪️asperse
▪️belittle
▪️calumniate
▪️censure
▪️condemn
▪️defame
▪️denounce
▪️depreciate
▪️derogate
▪️detract
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🔰 Save
save verb  (MAKE SAFE)
 UK ​ /seɪv/ US ​ /seɪv/
🔵collocations : save+
🔺one's strength
🔻light
🔺energy
🔻time
🔺someone's life
🔻someone a seat
🔺yourself the trouble
🔻your breath
🔺electricity
🔻money
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🔰legacy noun [ C ]
 UK ​ /ˈleɡ.ə.si/ US ​/ˈleɡ.ə.si/
Ⓜ️money or property that you receive from someone after they die:
Ⓜ️remaining of a part of history:
🔅An elderly cousin had left her a small legacy.
🔰synonyms : legacy
bequest,brightright,devise,
endowment, estate, gift, heirloom, throwback, inheritance.
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🔰suitable adjective
 UK ​ /ˈsuː.tə.bəl//ˈsjuː.tə.bəl/ 
US ​ /ˈsuː.t̬ə.bəl/
Ⓜ️acceptable or right for someone or something:
🔅My mother doesn't like me to wear shortskirts to church - she doesn't think they're suitable.
🔰synonyms : suitable
proper ,fitting, becoming,
seemly, befitting, eligible, agreeable, appropriate
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🔰nostalgia noun [ U ]
UK ​ /nɒsˈtæl.dʒə/ 
US ​ /nɑːˈstæl.dʒə/
Ⓜ️It's a pleasure remembrance
🔅Some people feel nostalgia for their schooldays.
🔵Synonyms: nostalgia
homesickeness, longing, pining, reminiscence, remorse, schmaltz, sentimentality, wistfulness, yearning
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🔰hallucination noun [ C or U ]
UK ​/həˌluː.sɪˈneɪ.ʃən/ 
US ​/həˌluː.səˈneɪ.ʃən/
Ⓜ️delusion, dream
🔅A high temperature can cause 
hallucinations.
🔵Synonyms: hallucination
aberration, apparition, fantasy, illusion, mirage, phantasm, phantasmagoria, phantom, trip, vision, wraith
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🔰Deleterious Adjective (f)
US ​ /ˌdɛlɪˈtɪərɪəs/
Ⓜ️If something is deleterious, it does harm or makes things worse.
🔅Smoking has obvious deleterious effects on your health, not to mention your social life.
🔵Synonyms: bad, destroying, destructive, detrimental, hurtful, injurious, mischievous, nocent, nocuous, pernicious, prejudicial, prejudicious, ruining, ruinous.
🔵 Antonyms: aiding, assisting, helpful
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🔰Petulant adjective
US /ˈpetjʊlənt/
Ⓜ️Choose the adjective petulant to describe a person or behavior that is irritable in a childish way.
🔅Fred gave the woman a petulant little boy look but then smiled and patted her arm.
🔵Synonyms: cranky, fractious, impatient, irritable, perverse, sullen, testy, whiny, bad-tempered, captious, caviling, complaining, cross, crybaby, displeased, fault-finding, fretful, grouchy, grumbling, huffy, ill-humored, mean, peevish, pouting, querulous, snappish, sour, sulky, touchy, ungracious, uptight, waspish, whining
🔵 Antonyms: agreeable, cheerful, happy, nice, patient, willing, good-natured, pleasant
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🔰Facetious Adjective
US ​ /fəˈsiːʃəs/
Ⓜ️If someone is being facetious they’re being playful with an edge.
🔅Sorry if that sounds facetious, but it is a valid point.
🔵Synonyms: amusing, blithe, capering, clever, comic, comical, droll, dry, fanciful, farcical, flip, flippant, frivolous, funny, humorous, indecorous, ironic, irreverent, jesting, jocose, jocular, joking, joshing, laughable, ludicrous, merry, not serious, playful, pleasant, pulling one's leg, punning, putting one on, ridiculous, salty, sarcastic, satirical, smart, sportive, sprightly, waggish, whimsical, wisecracking, witty, wry
🔵 Antonyms: formal, grave, serious, unfunny

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