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TOEFL Vocab: Everyday Phrases
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english
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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Match each statement with the correct term.
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1. Silence
walker
hear a pin drop
conscience
kinky
2. Be cheerful and get on with life
raise your spirit
pedastrian crossing
walker
half-sister-brother
3. 1. to work less hard or do something with less energy than before: Just relax and ......... a little. 2. to start doing something less - You should ......... on the whisky. 3. to improve or get less - The snow was .......
ease up
hypochondria
anti-establishment
impeccable
4. Make someone bored or repelled.
jukebox
sprain
turn someone off
slip off
5. Chatter - talk nonsense - speak about trivial matters
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6. Close call - near miss - miraculous rescue - escape with very little time to spare
gale
set sail
at standstill
norrow escape
7. Criminal; person outside the protection of the law; fugitive
outlaw
knock the socks off
shoot off one's mouth
infest
8. One who discloses the illegal or immoral acts of another person - informer
marooned
whistleblower
glider
jump the gun
9. (Slang) person whose main interest is clothes dressing fashionably
shoot off one's mouth
tentative decision
pay through the nose
clothes horse
10. A situation in which there is no movement or activity at all
get caught in traffic jam
kinky
biodegradable
at standstill
11. Cut off - isolated - abandoned; marooned on a reef or section of land - run aground
not make head or tail of
stranded
clothes horse
pressed for time
12. To prevent someone who is trying to attack or defeat you from succeeding: Not even a gun could hold him off forever.
turn someone off
get a move on
glider
hold him off
13. Keep secret - not tell He won`t say where he is going for his holiday. He wants .......his ..
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14. Boy-girl or woman who has either the same mother or the same father as them
dress to kill
out of work
impeccable
half-sister-brother
15. Materials - chemicals etc changed naturally by bacteria into substances that do not harm the environment OPP non-......... - This carton is made of ...... plastic.
biodegradable
hit the ceeling/roof
slip off
to be on sick leave
16. Sense of right and wrong
sleeping car
all ears
conscience
all thumbs
17. Chatter - babble - speak casually
keep something under someone's hat
shoot the breeze
at standstill
snow job
18. Confused - bewildered - perplexed
at a loss
infest
keep something under someone's hat
sleeping car
19. Partially melted snow
sleet
slush
at loggerheads
play hooky
20. Become or cause to become soft or liquid
at a loss
do justice
thaw
catch someone's eye
21. Left behind; stranded - put on a reef or section of land; abandoned in a deserted place
marooned
hit the ceeling/roof
keep something under someone's hat
at a loss
22. Fixed - unchanging; arranged - prepared; resolute - firmly resolved; determined in advance
shower head
rain set in for
blunt
get caught in traffic jam
23. Carriage in a train that is equipped with special couches for sleeping
clothes horse
ticket collector
sleeping car
out of work
24. Don't think too much about it
do justice
keep your hair on
impeccable
porch
25. Tools to pull apart or twist
conscience
pliers
snow job
pneumonia
26. An implement used to propel or steer a boat
hold him off
turn someone off
oar
for a song
27. Be completely at a loss as to what to do
have a memory like a sieve
at her wits end
ease up
braces
28. A cabinet containing an automatic record player
knock the socks off
walker
jukebox
pneumonia
29. Listening carefully - trying to hear everything When Dad mentioned hunting - I was all ears. I loved to hunt.
all ears
outlaw
glider
pneumonia
30. Turn to and adopt (a course of action) so as to resolve a difficult situation.
resort to
porch
thaw
fighting words
31. Pay a high price - pay too much
hard up
pay through the nose
pneumonia
stranded
32. Anxious - worried - or excited: I was too .......to sleep. - brought to a state of great tension
bonnet
wound up
scruffy
do justice
33. Informal) CAUSE A SENSATION - cause a stir - attract attention - draw attention to oneself/itself - get noticed - make an impression - make an impact.
make a splash
brag
anti-establishment
conscience
34. Be noticed by someone.
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35. Shunned responsibility for - - avoided being held accountable for -
get a move on
lump
wash hand of
shower head
36. Fail (a test - course - etc.); give up; drop out of school; give a student a failing grade student
you and what army
set in stone
go into shock
flunk
37. Wearing glamorous clothes intended to create a striking impression
have a memory like a sieve
turn someone off
dress to kill
funnel
38. Cheaply - inexpensively
for a song
get caught in traffic jam
contingency
all ears
39. Movement blocked by traffic
doubt his chances
bonnet
talk through his hat
get caught in traffic jam
40. Attempt to trick someone - attempted fraud (Slang)
revisit
shoot off one's mouth
gangplank
snow job
41. Informal - often disapproving) a small cheap restaurant - usually one that is not very clean or attractive
go into shock
greasy spoon
pneumonia
sleet
42. Involved in an argument - at odds - engaged in a disagreement
at loggerheads
perilous
gale
slip off
43. Fail to recognize or state the true value of someone or something.
pulled muscle
funnel
pneumonia
sell someone short
44. Strange - weird - odd; curly - twisted; stiff; sexually perverted
run your tail between your legs
braces
kinky
flexitime
45. Straightforward; or something that has a rough edge - that hurts
patio
blunt
keep something under someone's hat
half-sister-brother
46. Without much time - running out of time - in a hurry
pressed for time
dress to kill
set sail
joking aside
47. Engineless aircraft
glider
marooned
blunt
lets take it outside
48. Not understand at all.
gangplank
knock the socks off
not make head or tail of
keep something under someone's hat
49. Hood
slush
bonnet
run your tail between your legs
gangplank
50. Container used to hold water for washing oneself
shoot off one's mouth
set in stone
bathtub
snowdrift