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1) Bring about: to accomplish, cause, to cause (something) to happen

A speech that brought about a change in public opinion.


Land reform brought about a great change in the lives of the common people.
Weather conditions reform brought about a great change in the lives of common life
2) Bring around/round: to convince of a belief or opinion, persuade
I think we can bring him around to agreeing with the plan
I think we are able to bring around to getting reach to moon surface easier, in
comparison whatever have been in the past.
They brought around a new employee this morning.
3) Bring down: to injure, capture, or kill
He brought down many ducks in the last hunting trip.
To lessen, reduce: I won't but the lamp unless they bring down the price.
4) Bring forth: to give rise to, to give birth, deliver, introduce
Plants bringing forth fruit.
To bring forth a son.
To bring forth a proposal for reducing costs.
5) Bring forward: to bring to view, show, to present for consideration, adduce
A bring forward proof.
6) Bring in: to yield, as profits or income:
My part- time job doesn't bring in much, but I enjoy it.
To present officially; submit: the jury brought in its verdict
To cause to operate or yield: they brought in a gusher on his property.
To present for consideration, approval, etc. introduce: she brought in six new
members last month.
7) Bring off: to accomplish, carry out, or achieve (something) :
He brought off his speech with ease.
8) Work in/ into: to bring or put in, merge, blend:
The tailor worked in the patch skillfully.
Work the cream into the hands until it is completely absorbed.
To arrange time, or employment for: the dentist was very busy, but said he
she would able to work me in late in the afternoon.
They worked him into the new operation.
9) Work off: to lose or dispose of, as by exercise or labor:
We decide to work off the effect of a heavy supper by walking for an hour.
To pay or fulfill by working: he worked off his debt by doing odd jobs
10) Work on/upon: to exercise influence on, persuade, affect.
I'll work on her, and maybe she'll change her mind.
11) Work out: to bring about by work, effort, or action, to solve as a problem, to issue in a result
12) Work over: to study or examine thoroughly:
For my term paper I worked over 30 volumes of roman history.
Informal: a beat unsparingly, in order to obtain something or out of revenge: they
threatened to work him over until he talked
13) Work through: to deal with successful, come to terms with
To works through one's feelings of guilt.
14) Work up: to move or stir the feeling, excite.
To prepare, elaborate:
Work up some plans.
Increase in efficiency or skills: he worked up his typing speeds to 70 words in a
minute.
15) At work: working as at one's job
He is at work on new novel.
In action or operation: to see the machine at work.
16) Get off sb's back: used to tell someone to stop criticizing you:
Why don't you got off my back, I am doing my best.
17) Get off one's ass: to stop being lazy and inert.
18) Oust:
19) Redeem: to buy or pay off, clear by payment.
20) Take out: to take a cigarette out of box, to take a pen and being to write. To take a book in
one hand and hold child by hand.
21) Sit in: any organized protest in which a group of people peacefully occupy and refuse to leave
the promises: six students staged a sit in outside the dean's office.
22) Sit-down strike: a strike during which workers occupy their place of employment and
refuse to work or allow others to work until the strike is settled.
23) Cohesion(n), coherent (adj), coherence (n).
24) Orders are orders: when you have to do something because someone in authority
has told you to, and usually when you do not really approve of it:
Nobody wants to do it, but orders are orders, so let's start.
25) Out of order: his behavior in the meeting was out of order.
26) The lower orders: the poorest social group in the society.
27) Order your thoughts: to plan what you want to say or do:
Just give me a moment to order my thought, and then I'll explain the system to you.
28) Order sb around: to tell someone what they should do in an unpleasant or forceful
way, specially repeatedly:
You can't just come here and start ordering people around.
29) Order sth in: to order food that is ready to eat to brought to your home or work place:
I think I'll stay home tonight, order pizza in, and watch my new box set.
30) Overrated: if something or someone are overrated, that person or thing is considered to be
better or more important than really they are.
In my opinion, she is hugely overrated singer.

31) Point out: to tell someone about some information, because you believe that they do not
know it or forgotten it:
A couple of alert readers wrote in to the paper pointing out the mistake.
He was planning to book rock- climbing holiday, till I pointed out that he is afraid of heights.

Grammatical points:
First+ noun+ infinitive
The + adjective= adjective people
Make + noun + complement (usually an adjective or noun )
Job+ be-verb+ infinitive

32) Settle: to reach a decision or agreement about something, or to end a disagreement:


Good, that's all settled, you send out the invitations for this party, and I'll organize the food.
33) Overdue: not done or happening when expected or needed, late:
My library books are a week overdue.
The baby is two week overdue. ( = the baby was expected to be born two weeks ago)
Changes to the tax system are long overdue.
She feels she's overdue for promotion.
34) Replenish: to fill something up again:
Food stocks were replenished with/by imports from abroad.
Does your glass need replenishing?
35) Wadding: any soft material used for filling space, especially in order to protect something or
give something shape, filling and completing:
The chandelier arrived in a big box, tightly packed around in wadding.
36) Holistically: whole and complete, dealing with or treating to whole of something or someone
and not just a part:
Each response is holistically scored on 6 point scale according to the criteria published in
the exam.
My doctor takes a holistic approach to disease.
Ecological problem usually require holistic solutions.
Holistic score means each response is judged as a whole.
37) Undergo: to experience something that is unpleasant or something that involves a change.
She underwent an operation on a tumor in her left lung last year.
Playing board games is undergoing a revival in popularity.
He seems to have undergone a change in attitude recently, and has become much
more co-operative.
After the accident, he underwent reconstructive surgery to rebuild his face.
I had to undergo a medical examination when I started my pension scheme.
Athletes must undergo a mandatory drugs test before competing in the
championship.
The company is undergoing a radical reorganization.
38) Stringent: sever, serious and sever, having a being sever effect, or being extremely limiting.
The most stringent laws in the world are useless unless there is the will to enforce them.
We need to introduce more stringent security measures such as identity cards.
Stringent safety regulations were introduced after the accident.
Fire regulations are stringently (adv) enforced in all our factories.
The stringency of the safety regulation threatens to put many manufacturers out of business.
39) Boil down: to reduce information, usually so that it contains only its most important part:
The boss wants me to boil down the ten- page sales report to one page.
40) Reliable: someone or something that is reliable can be trusted or believed because he, she,
or it works or behaves well in the way you expect.
Is your watch reliable?
Reliable information.
Gideaon is very reliable if he says he'll do something, he'll do it.

41) Be subjected to: the thing that is discussed, considered, or studied:

She has made series of documentaries on the subject of family relationships.

Our subject for discussion is homelessness.


The guest lecturer took as her subject (= decided to speak about) " punishment and
imprisonment in modern society "
The number of planes flying over the town has been the subject of (= has caused)
concern since summer.
Books on every conceivable subject lined one wall.
Several experts are to give evidence on the subject.
The school offers courses in every subject imaginable.
She's got some very interesting things to say on the subject.
Food, like sex, is a subject of almost universal interest
My favorite subjects at school were history and English.
Her subject (= special area of study ) is low-temperature physics.
I'd tried to explain the situation, but he just changed the subject.
The person or thing that performs the action of a verb, or is joined to a description
by a verb: " Bob" is the subject of the sentence " Bob" threw the ball.
A person who lives in or who has the right to live in a particular country, especially a
country with a king or queen:
He is a British subject.
To defeat people or a country and then control them against their wishes and limit
their freedom:
The invaders quickly subjected the local tribes.
To have or experience a particular thing, especially something unpleasant:
Cars are subject a high domestic tax.
In recent years, she has been subject to attack of depression.
Only able to happen if something else happens:
We plan to go on Wednesday, subject to your approval.
Moving all the books should not take long, subject to there being(= if there are)
enough helpers.
Under the political control of another country or state:
Subject peoples/states.
42) Get sucked into something: to become involved in a situation when you do not want to be
involved:
I got sucked into the argument because I was a friend of the family.
43) Elevate: to raise something or lift something up:
The platform was elevated by means of hydraulic les.
to make someone or something more important or to improve something: they want
to elevate the status of teachers.
These factors helped to elevate the town to the position of one of the beautiful in
the country.
Be elevated to sth: he has been elevated to deputy manager.
She was elevated to the peerage (= was made a peer)
44) Execrate: very bad
An execrable performance.
She's always had execrable taste in men.

45) Conform: to behave according to the usual standards of behavior that are expected by group
or society
At our school, you were required to conform, and there was no place for originality.
46) Obligation: the fact that you are obliged to do something:
If you have not signed a contract, you are under no obligation to (= it is not necessary to) pay
them any money.
You have a legal obligation to (= the law says you must) ensure your child receives an
education.
Something that you must do: I don't have time to do his work for him I have too
many obligations as it as.
Beach operators do not have a legal obligation to provide against injury or drowning.
It's her moral obligation to tell the police what she knows.
Are you under a contractual obligation to any other company?
You have a legal obligation to inform the police about the crash.
Obligatory (adj): if something is obligatory, you must do it because of a rule or law,
etc:
The medical examination before you start work is obligatory.
The statue made it obligatory for all healthy males between 14 and 60 to work.
Expected because it usually happens:
Several secret service agents surrounded the president, all wearing the obligatory
raincoat and hat.
47) Saddle sb/sth with sth: to put someone in a situation in which they have to deal with
something difficult or unpleasant.
Many people don't want traditional mortgages that saddle borrowers with debt for fixed
period.
The balance sheet is healthy, and the corporation is no longer saddled with a pile of bad
investments.

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