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Pick the option that best matches Make allowances for.

  • to consider difficulties or special circumstances
  • to provide a place for someone to stay
  • to remain true or valid
  • to remain willing to consider new ideas
Correct answer(s):
  • to consider difficulties or special circumstances

Which option best explains the expression Make light of?

  • to understand the mood or situation around you
  • to continue resisting or lasting
  • to treat something as less serious than it is
  • to keep something away or under control
Correct answer(s):
  • to treat something as less serious than it is

The phrase Make out is closest in meaning to which option?

  • wake up and become active
  • to delay or stop progress
  • to move or progress at the same speed as others
  • to understand or see something with difficulty
Correct answer(s):
  • to understand or see something with difficulty

What does Keep up with suggest in everyday use?

  • to stay level with others or remain informed
  • not able to be reached or obtained
  • to break a promise or fail to keep one’s word
  • at the proper time
Correct answer(s):
  • to stay level with others or remain informed

What is the figurative use of Make the best of?

  • to chase or pursue someone or something
  • in serious difficulty or poor condition
  • to monitor or record something carefully
  • to use a difficult situation as well as possible
Correct answer(s):
  • to use a difficult situation as well as possible

In common English, what is meant by Knock on wood?

  • slightly unwell or upset
  • said to hope that good luck continues
  • to be remembered as important in the future
  • supporting or approving something
Correct answer(s):
  • said to hope that good luck continues

Which option correctly defines Make up for?

  • to compensate for something
  • to win easily or take complete control of a contest
  • in a difficult situation with few choices
  • to stay level with others or remain informed
Correct answer(s):
  • to compensate for something

What is the correct sense of Know the ropes?

  • in addition to something
  • to choose, try for, or support something
  • in agreement or harmony with something
  • to understand how something is done
Correct answer(s):
  • to understand how something is done

Choose the meaning that matches Make way for.

  • to have too little of something
  • to allow space or opportunity for something else
  • before a particular time or event
  • said to hope that good luck continues
Correct answer(s):
  • to allow space or opportunity for something else

What does the idiom Lay emphasis on usually mean?

  • to be accepted as something or someone
  • to make a sudden loud noise or explode
  • to honor someone who has died
  • to give special importance to something
Correct answer(s):
  • to give special importance to something

Select the best interpretation of Mind your language.

  • to reserve something for a special purpose
  • altogether or as a total
  • to speak politely and avoid rude words
  • to understand how something is done
Correct answer(s):
  • to speak politely and avoid rude words

Which choice shows the idiomatic meaning of Lay the foundation?

  • to establish the basic support for future success
  • to return money or repay a wrong
  • to make a special effort to help or do something
  • not at all
Correct answer(s):
  • to establish the basic support for future success

Which answer best represents Lead the way?

  • to deliberately start an argument
  • to guide others or go first
  • to review or examine carefully
  • for the purpose of doing something
Correct answer(s):
  • to guide others or go first

How should a reader understand Leave behind?

  • to recover or survive a difficult situation
  • to manage without something
  • instead of someone or something
  • to fail to take someone or something, or move ahead of them
Correct answer(s):
  • to fail to take someone or something, or move ahead of them

Which meaning fits the phrase In spite of?

  • not at all or not nearly
  • despite something
  • to reserve something for a special purpose
  • to delay or stop progress
Correct answer(s):
  • despite something

Choose the correct meaning of In the face of.

  • not official or not meant to be made public
  • despite difficulty, danger, or opposition
  • to begin and continue, especially something unpleasant
  • in serious difficulty or poor condition
Correct answer(s):
  • despite difficulty, danger, or opposition

Pick the option that best matches In the meantime.

  • because of something
  • during the time before something else happens
  • to start a journey, task, or plan
  • in a difficult situation with few choices
Correct answer(s):
  • during the time before something else happens

Which option best explains the expression In the same breath?

  • sometimes but not regularly
  • almost at the same time, often with a contrasting idea
  • to arrange, establish, or create something
  • before a particular time or event
Correct answer(s):
  • almost at the same time, often with a contrasting idea

The phrase In view of is closest in meaning to which option?

  • nervous or anxious
  • considering something
  • to complete or survive something difficult
  • altogether or as a total
Correct answer(s):
  • considering something

What is the figurative use of Keep an open mind?

  • having a friendly relationship
  • to stop resisting and accept something
  • to remain willing to consider new ideas
  • whatever happens or anyway
Correct answer(s):
  • to remain willing to consider new ideas