Chapter Six: Exercise

Advanced everyday english: Advanced vocabulary, phrasal verbs, idioms and expressions - Collins Steven 2011


Chapter Six: Exercise

Choose the correct word from those in red

Answers on page 134

1. We’re going to have to lay off more staff than I thought. It is indeed a a(blatant lie/bitter pill to swallow/hype/uproar). So I’ve asked Jenny, our employment lawyer, to come to a meeting and b(make a comeback/unveil/brand/take us through) the correct procedure.

2. I do not believe all the a(hype/uproar/shifting/alienation) coming from the Government ministers that our public exams are going to become rigorous and more difficult to pass. Most children these days lack a good b(pushover/grounding/branding/hype) in mathematics and English, and have become unfortunate victims of our c(slim/amended/dumbed-down/ undermined) education system.

3. I don’t want to a(unveil/shift/brand/undermine) my husband’s authority in front of the children, and I certainly wouldn’t like to b(alienate him/string him along/amend him/ disgruntle him) at these times when I know he needs my support, but I do often wonder whether he is c(unveiled with/endowed with/emerged with/amended with) a brain.

4. There’s no point in trying to a(pester me/grate on me/string те/shift me) along with your b(disgruntled/blatant/unnerving/grounding) lies. I know exactly what you are up to and it’s just c(not on/a pushover/ап uproar/slapdash).

5. Daniel says that your presence at parents’ meetings with teachers a(brands/shifts/unnerves /pesters) him. He would much rather you express your thoughts in a letter to the school if you feel b(blatant/in uproar/pushed over/disgruntled) about something.

6. Jane is clearly a very bright girl, but she needs to spend much more time on preparing her written work; it’s far too a(slapdash/dumbed-down/amended/slim). AIso, she very often b(shifts/strays/undermines/pesters) from the subject.

7. What has a(emerged/shifted/amended/unveiled) from these discussions is that if we do sell the business, we cannot afford to let it b(be endowed/make a comeback/go for a song/die down). Remember, we have creditors to c(pester/amend/endow/keep at bay).

8. It wasn’t so long ago when the music media a(endowed/branded/shifted/pestered) him as passe. But now he seems to be making something of a b(uproar/comeback/pushover/ skirmish) and his chances of regaining his former popularity are not as c(slim/branded/ disgruntled/shifted) as they once were.

9. Economists keep warning us that there will be a a(undermining/skirmish/shift/grounding) of financial power from west to east and that the U.S in particular needs to b(unveil/endow /hype/amend) new strategies to take account of this phenomenon.

10. She knows that her father is a complete a(uproar/stray/blatant/pushover) and that she doesn’t need to b(shift/pester/string along/alienate) him for too long before she gets her own way. Men! They’re all the same. Their behaviour and annoying habits c(grate/disgruntle/ die down/unveil) on all of us suffering women

II. So that we avoid unpleasant a(dumbing-down/skirmishes/hypes/pushovers) in this fragile political coalition we have recently formed, and take account of this new situation, we will, unfortunately, need to b(unnerve/stray/amend/unvel) our policies.

12. At first there was a(hype/branding/skirmish/uproar) amongst public sector workers when the Government announced a cutback in local council jobs, but now that the anger has b(died down/gone for a song/shifted/amended), most people have reluctantly accepted reality.