Phrasal verbs

bring back - bring into - bring out - bring up

1. A week by the sea brought her ______ health.
2. He was brought _____ by his grandmother.
3. The work brought me _____ a contact with a lot of interesting people.
4. Jenny opened a cupboard and brought _____ a couple of bottles.

Vocabulary Check

aggregate - baffle -equity - pinch - torment

1. Private _____ activity can include buying distressed companies, and providing management services to maximize the chances of turnaround.
2. Apparently, bank managers are not feeling the _____ in the same way as their employees.
3. Children are far less likely to suffer from the ______ of toothache.
4. In the 1950s and 1960s, when communities across North America debated whether to put fluoride in their supply dentists, university researchers and other experts were ______ as to why people would vote against a measure that so clearly had a beneficial impact on children's teeth.
5. The success of mutual funds in _______ investment dollars from retail investors and charging a fee for providing professional investment management: services has directly spawned the ETF industry.

Vocabulary Check

blur - delusion - equity -rampion - taint  

1. If that's true then I will let you have as many _____ as you want on one condition.
2. Experience may be the best teacher, but biased experience supports bias, distorted experience supports distortion, self - deluded experience supports self- _____.
3. For example, if someone from the US is discussing "communism", because of their social conditioning and the view the communism is inherently bad, or even evil, then their description of this economic system may be ______, or biased by this conditioning.
4. Private Equity refers to _____ that is not listed on any stock exchange.
5. Over the last decade, the distinction between hedge funds and these "alternative" investment vehicles has ______.

SAT Vocabulary

adroit - skillful
decorum - dignified behaviour
largess - generosity
obsolete - no longer valid
adulation - worship

Vocabulary Check

distort - distortion - flaw - rampion - suspension - unattainable

1. My wife saw your ______ from the window and she wanted it so bad, that I could not say no to her.
2. Robert challenged Evensson on the validity of his conclusions claiming that his data were _____ and were too limited to be reliable.
3. In a _____ bridge, there are two towers with one or more flexible cable firmly attached at each end.
4. Experience may be the best teacher, but biased experience supports bias, ______ experience supports distortion, self- deluded experience supports self-delusion.
5. Absolute zero, the temperature at which all substances have zero thermal energy, and thus lowest possible temperatures, is ________ in practice.
6. Without this command, we confuse these important discriminations and _____ the important realities they help us distinguish.

Vocabulary Check

flaw - incarcerate - rampion - scurry - seminal - undulation

1. How dare you come into my garden, and steal my _____ like a thief!
2. Although Gregor wasn't able to hear any news directly he did listen to much of what was said in the next rooms, and whenever he heard anyone speaking he would _____ straight to the appropriate door and press his whole body against it.
3. What he heard his father say was some of the first good news that Gregor heard since he had first been _____ in his room.
4. There are _____ in some of your calculations, and they need redoing.
5. This superb article can be viewed as a _____ piece of work which has made ground-breaking discoveries about the nature of cancerous cells.
6. Friction between moving air and the ocean surface generates ______ of water called waves.

SAT Vocabulary

certitude - certainly
digress - wonder off the subject
falter - hesitate;waver
indelible - cannot be wiped out
malinger - deliberately avoid work

Vocabulary Check

flutter - luminary -rampion - scruffy - tint -vulnerable

1. The man took the _____ and his wife made a salad out of it and ate it.
2. She would _____ and fidget about from room to room until her husband, who must have been well aware of her state, finally emerged from his privacy and suggested in a cool dry voice that perhaps they had better get going now, had they not?
3. You can't wear those old _____ jeans to the wedding.
4. But the IoT makes us more _____ to cyber-attacks and breaches of personal data.
5. Backed by _____ such as Sir Tim Berners - Lee, the decentralised web, or DWeb, aims to break down the walled gardens of the Internet, where people experience the online world through operators such as Google, Facebook and others.
6. You' ve got the network inside _____.

SAT vocabulary

circuitous - indirect
fervor - passion
inept - incompetent
martinet - person who believes in strict discipline
skirmish - minor battle

Vocabulary Check

boo -demolition -deter - enliven -parse - rampion 

1. He started taking some _____.
2. The fact that the country is socially unstable _____ investors.
3. Audiences inevitably _____ as he sang encore after encore to the delight of fans from all around the country.
4. The notes will later have to be _____ to be of use to the student.
5. The _____ team will push the button in maybe eight minutes.
6. It would be a great comfort to Mr. Weston, as he grew older to have his fireside _____ by the sports and nonsense, the freaks and the fancies of a child never banished from home; and Mrs Weston - no one could doubt that a daughter would be most to her; and it would be quite a pity that any one who so well knew how to teach, should not have their powers in exercise again.

SAT Vocabulary

acrid - sharp
boorish - ill-mannered
poignant - deeply moving
respite - a break
hiatus - pause

Vocabulary Check

accrue - frenetic - infrared - leverage - rampion -rigorous  

1. Please, do something, I really want to eat those _____.
2. Some of the _____ comes from positions in derivative instruments such as futures and options.
3. The standard cost structure is known as 2 and 20, which _____ to the managers.
4. All amid all this _____ change, some are beginning to question whether the news media are still fulfilling their basic mission of holding powerful people to account and helping audiences understand the world around them.
5. However, please understand this is an introductory General Education non-credit bearing course and is not as _____ as we would expect a normal course to be.
6. The ______ aerial photograph seems to show a large village around 1,000 years ago.

SAT Vocabulary

accolade - praise
bolster - support
lamentation - expression of regret or sorrow
obliterate - destroy
tentative - not certain

SAT Vocabulary

certitude - certainty
digress - wander off the subject
falter - hesitate,waver
indelible - cannot be wiped out
malinger - deliberately avoid work

Vocabulary Check

aggregate -compliant - formidable - rampion -skiff - wavery 

1. His skin was like an oil slick over his bones, muscles and tendons; you could see them, _____ and distorted, beneath it.
2. King of France, who was _____ still in spite of his recent reverses; and it was necessary, therefore, to have recourse to some profitable scheme, which was a matter of great difficulty in the impoverished condition of exhausted Italy.
3. One day the woman saw a plant called _____which is used to make salads.
4. Because they _____ capital from many investors, it is possible for a single one to invest in mutual funds with an amount as little as a few hundred dollars.
5. The World Olympic committee has allowed ______, a type of a small boat used in competitive sport, to complete in their own class in the next Olympic games.
6. Peter was a ______ worker, not like his coworker Simon, who stubbornly challenged his bosses at every opportunity.

Vocabulary Check

dabble - debrief -digress - distorted -slick - tangible - vying

1. His skin was like an oil _____ over his bones, muscles and tendons; you could see them, wavery and distorted, beneath it.
2. You'll be back and ______ by oh seven hundred hours tomorrow.
3. Looking at him is like looking into a _____ mirror at a carnival, the kind that squashes you as it magnifies you.
4. If the speaker ______ or goes off topic, with concise notes it is possible to expand them and add in information.
5. Some of you might have ______ in real-estates.
6. Real assets are ______ assets which are used to create value.
7. You have hundreds of retailers ______ for your business, which means you have lots of choice.

Vocabulary Check

daunting - debrief -digress - distorted - perpetual - sacrosanct 

1. His skin was like an oil slick over his bones muscles and tendons; you could see them wavery and _____, beneath it.
2. But _____ goes out the window when the Old Man calls, and there was a note beside my bunk when I awoke, on the Old Man's orange paper, telling me to report to his office at my convenience, which is his way of saying immediately.
3. Joliet and Joy are ______now.
4. I have worn and continue to wear multiple professional hats - scholar, consultant, investor, trader, teacher and _____ student.
5. In this location, there is barely a secondary market for debt, the sheer scale of operations makes everything ______.
6. This style  is characterized as the lecturer as performer, with a wide range of intonation, and frequent _____.

Vocabulary Check

amplification - banged up - debrief -lard - quartermaster - riffle through - sacrosanct - tendon - tourniquet

1. Heat the butter and ______ in a frying pan.
2. His skin was like an oil slick over his bones, muscles and _____, you could see them wavery and distorted beneath it.
3. I traded the jacket for information, and the belt had made a pretty effective ______, if you must know.
4. He gets a day to _____, and then a day to himself.
5. It's kind of ______.
6. He's pretty ______.
7. He picked up a file from from his desk, ______ it and pulled out a sheet of blue paper.
8. If I need any ______ I can get in touch with you.
9. The ______ is from one of the heavier Earths - places where you feel like you weigh 500 pounds, and often do.

Vocabulary Check

bawl - crumble -lard - mesh - quart -squander - tangible - wary- wobbly

1. The net crackled and sparked tiny blue sparks where the ______ touched.
2. It's kind of ______; it smells like damp and pizza and sweaty sports equipment - and if I don't sound like I love my school,well,I guess that's because I don't.
3. I made it up the steps, keeping a _____ eye on the sky for gladiators on flying discs.
4. I was ready to start ______ like a baby.
5. Good thing, too,because the world - had gone kind of ______.
6. This was dark like something you could touch, something solid and _____ and cold.
7. I usually use butter,but I could only find _____.
8. He _____ all his wealth after the death of his father.
9. Two blocks from her house,intending to buy a _____ of milk and aloof of whole-wheat bread, Tina stopped at the supermarket.

Vocabulary Check

crackle - creep -crotch- dodge - finicky -shove - swoop - yelp 

1. I managed to _____ up Peaches from the bottom step.
2. My house wasn't my house, my family wasn't my family, my girlfriend wasn't my girlfriend - well, she hadn't been from the start, but this was no time to get _____.
3. I _____ in pain and clutched my kneecap.
4. What made it worse was that I knew that behind mirrored mask, the _____ was smiling.
5. The net ______ and sparked tiny blue sparks where the mesh touched.
6. Jay ______ me.
7. I _____ to the left, just as a net landed where I had been.
8. There were bad guys on flying manhole covers after me, and a guy with an armoured ______ and a mirrored face.

Vocabulary Check

boo -distorted - flop down - have at it - hog - prop open - putrid - snuggle - swoop - tip 

1. We _____ them all, scattering our lives across the chipped mosaic tile top.
2. I told Marisol and _____ my chin.
3. As she locked the door, a bird _____ low across the landing.
4. About why we never _____ our door in the summer like the other tenants.
5. Marisol signed, flicking one fingernail under the poodle's white chin and ______ her close.
6. I need another dog like this little ______.
7. "Afternoon,girls!" Mrs Newsome ______ next to us, helping herself to popcorn.
8. _______,lady.
9. Twenty - four years  I've lived with that _____ green.
10. It was the strangest thing, staring into that bank,silvery face and seeing my own face staring back at me, all bent and ______.

Vocabulary Check

heck - goofy - ripple - scrutinize -shimmer- sick sense of humour - splinter - subtle 

1. Little things, ______ things were not the same.
2. I thought maybe the hall carpet was a slightly different pattern, but who the _____ remembers a carpet pattern?
3. If it is a joke, it's being pulled by a multimillionaire with a really sick sense of humor.
4. This girl had red- brown hair, freckles, kind of a ______ expression.
5. Mrs. Harker was _____ me.
6. To this day I don't know if I ran away because it was all too much to handle or because I wanted to spare her what I knew: that reality can ______ like a hammered mirror.
7. Suddenly the air in front of me ______.
8. It _______, like heat waves gone all silvery, and then it tore open.

Vocabulary Check

buzz cut - chain saw -  contagious -daze -sole - surrender - tap - wind chimes

1. I ran straight across the street, _____ Rowena on the shoulder and said, "I"m sorry.Guess we should have listened to Ted".
2. This girl wore her blond hair in _____ - real short.
3. She was looking at me like I had just climbed out of the sewer wearing a hockey mask and carrying a _____.
4. I had _____ all my change.
5. Under the inner_____was a folded five dollar bill.
6. I took out the five bucks, put my shoe back on, got some change and got on a bus for home, rehearsing all the things I could say to Mr Dimas, to Rowena, even to Ted, and wondering whether I"d get lucky in the next twelve hours and somehow manage to contract a disease so _____ that they'd have to keep me out of school until the end of the semester...
7. I rode the bus home in a _____.
8. It looked the same from the outside - same _____ hanging from the front porch roof.

Vocabulary Check

blurb - pant - snatch - stubble - swelter 

1. You had your faraway settings and swoonworthy characters - extra points for tossing in a manic-pixie dream girl or _____ faced bad boy.
2. Great books give us spine - tingling plots or twists that reach right into your lungs and _____ your next breath.
3. And my friend was right - we were wilting with the _______afternoon.
4. They should come up with: the title, the index, the table of contents , the preface, the _____ on the back cover.
5. At least the fog was almost gone when I got back to the cross street, ______ and out of breath.

Academic Verbs Synonyms

affect - influence
attempt - try
calculate - compute
challenge - question
demonstrate - show
identify - distinguish
include - involve
investigate - study
provide - give
Can you guess which column is academic?)))

Vocabulary Check

bead -lemming -manic- pixie - twist - wilt - tartan

1. You had your faraway settings and swoonworthy characters - extra points for tossing in a _____ dream girl or stubbly faced bad boy.
2. Great books give us  spine -tingling plots or ______ that reach right into your lungs and snatch your next breath.
3. And my friend has right - we were ______ with the sweltering afternoon.
4. "No problem," I said with all the confidence of a ______ who thinks he's headed for a nice day at the seashore.
5. I headed straight into it, felt it _____ cold on my face.
6. Across the street was a McDonald's I"d never seen before, with a huge green _____ arch above it.

Word family - employ

employ - employer - employee - employment - employable

1. The shoe-factory is the largest ______in this area.
2. Mexican law prohibits ______ of children under 14.
3. The training scheme aims to make people more______.
4. The firm has 450 ______.
5. The police had to ______ force to enter the house.

Vocabulary Check

blip - dubiously - relish - spine-tingling - swoon-worthy - take guts -  tank top

1. I could become more than a anonymous _____ on her radar.
2. I even told my parents how I felt, and that _____.
3. Ted and Rowena looked at me ______.
4. I could see that she didn't _____ walking five or six blocks with Ted Russell, but that she also didn't want to be wandering around down town for the rest of the day.
5. You had your faraway settings and ______ characters - extra points for tossing in a manic-pixie dream girl or stubbly faced bad boy.
6. Great books give us ______ plots or twists that reach right into your lungs and snatch your next breath.
7. Fall means boots and scarves and sweaters, not ______.

SAT Vocabulary

diorama - model of a scene
fecund - fertile
inebriation - drunkenness
marshal - to gather together
parity - equality

Check your Vocabulary

be canned for - clobber - drool over - obnoxious - sprite - squid - sway

1. She is a Cuban- American Californian who can be found haunting her favorite coffee shops, _____ leather jackets, and wishing she was in London or Paris.
2. Rumor at school was that he was going to _____ that one.
3. The _____ was fast asleep in mom's lap - she was still breast-feeding him back then.
4. Past the witching hour, ______.
5. Even though he's just a city councilman, he has more _____ among some people than mayor does.
6. The worst that might happen would be an old lady _____ us with her purse if one of us was foolish enough to try to help her across 42nd Avenue.
7. But I was willing to put up with Russell, _____ jerk that he was, to be here - to be anywhere with Rowena Danvers.

SAT Vocabulary

abstemious - self-denying
blithe - carefree
crepuscular - active at dawn and dusk
enunciation - clear pronunciation
lackluster - dull, monotonous

Vocabulary Check

blunder - fiefdom - haunting - quad - quirky - squid

1. She is a Cuban-American Californian who can be found _____ her favorite coffee shops, drooling over leather jackets, and wishing she was in London or Paris.
2. This former teacher writes young adult novels about ______ teens learning to navigate life and love.
3. We had just built a new annex - added a hallway and a bedroom for the ______, aka Kevin, my really little brother.
4. I realised I'd turned right instead of left, so I promptly made the same mistake again and ______ into the closet.
5. He made the front page of the local paper last year and nearly got fired when he turned two classes into warring _____ that tried to negotiate peace for an entire semester.
6. The peace talks eventually broke down and the two classes went to war on the ______ during free period.

SAT Vocabulary

absolution - forgiveness
blatant - obvious
creditable - praiseworthy
ensconce - establish firmly in a position
laceration - a cut

Vocabulary Check

arcane - albeit - delineate - demeanor - obscene - scrutinize -wallflower

1. Certain items of vocabulary are rarely or never spoken, such as many polysyllabic chemical terms, or the more _____  legal terms.
2. Conversely, certain items of spoken vocabulary are not normally written and certain slang or ______ expressions.
3. For the purposes of this essay, two opposing theories will be ______.
4. So, provided that we remember this, then we can give people basic rights, ______ with limitations.
5. There's not a lot of _______ in this example.
6. You can't assess a person's intelligence or _______ by the clothes they wear.
7. This is a woman who's not looking to be a ______.

SAT Vocabulary

malediction - a curse
prevaricate - speak misleadingly
scuttle - sink
unfrock - to remove a priest from his position
diffident - lacking confidence position

Vocabulary Check

alleviate - curb - impinge - intricate - transient

1. He needed to resolve Catholic - Protestant divisions within the country; ______ the power of the Guise, Montmorenci and Bourbons factions which threatened to subvert royal power; and he needed to restore the French economy.
2. There is a skepticism in the minds of many ministers that the plan is really going to _____ transport difficulties.
3. The basic function of a signal is to _____ upon the environment in such a way that it attracts attention.
4. Speech is time-bound, dynamic, ______- part of an interaction, in which, typically, both participants are present, and the speaker has a specific addressee in mind.
5. It promotes the development of careful organization more compact _____, structured expression.

SAT Vocabulary

chicanery - trickery
fatuous - silly, foolish
parched up - dried up
profane - unholy
serene - calm, peaceful

Vocabulary Check

quasar - incessantly - locomotion - weasel words - revered

1. _____, which are relatively small objects, emit an enormous amount of energy.
2. Both men worked congenially and cooperatively, read the same books, located and shared information, talked ______ about the possibility of manned flight.
3. The Ciliata, which use the same basic means for locomotion as the Mastigophora, have a larger number of short tails.
4. Choose a topic about an issue of grammar, syntax, word choice, or punctuation that students not studying writing may need guidance on such as _______.
5. You'll ______ enhance your employment prospects if you write well.
6. English has no protector of language such the 400- year-old body of ______ experts who protect the French language.

SAT Vocabulary

celerity - speed
dexterous - skillful with hands
extraneous - irrelevant
maladroit - clumsy; unskillful
pallid - pale

Vocabulary Check

quasar - aloof - congenially - combustion - acquiesce - motility

1. _____ emit an enormous amount of energy.
2. So as the crisis ebbed and the bank moved to embrace  retail finance, its grandees tried to appear a fraction more cuddly or less arrogantly _____.
3. Both men worked _____ and cooperatively, read the same books, located and shared information, talked incessantly about the possibility of manned flight.
4. They were to take advantage of the relatively tight internal _____ engine.
5. Further more, composers _____ to the demands of singers, writing many operas that were little more than a succession of brilliant tricks to the voice, designed to showcase the splendid vocal talent of the singers who had requested them.
6. They are fantastically diverse, but three major groups may be identified on the basis of their _____.

SAT Vocabulary

caustic - burning
detrimental - harmful
extol - praise
incipient - just beginning
magnanimous - generous

Vocabulary Check

quasar - rear - premise - ebb - tacit - haul

1. _____ are relatively small objects.
2. In addition, the number of children born to unmarried women who choose  to  keep their babies and _____ them by themselves has increased dramatically.
3. The fundamental _____ of alchemy derived from the best philosophical dogma and scientific practice of the time, and the majority of educated persons between 1400 and 1600 believed that alchemy had great merit.
4. So as the crisis _____ and the bank moved to embrace retail finance, its grandees tried to appear a fraction more cuddly or less arrogantly aloof.
5. Corporate Culture is  the "shared customs, beliefs, norms, values, and _____ assumptions that make up the culture of a given organisation."
6. Moreover, if patrons were at distance from the artist, the finished work might have to be _____ in a cart.

SAT Vocabulary

chary - cautious about
dilatory - slow
malleable - flexible
sequester - isolate
mallet - wooden hammer