Essential English Phrasal Verbs and Vocabulary List

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Common English Phrasal Verbs

  • To break up with: End a relationship.
  • To bring about: To cause to happen (health, wealth, good fortune).
  • To build up: To draw.
  • To carry on: To continue.
  • To carry out: To conduct.
  • To catch up: Reach the same level.
  • To cheer somebody up: Make somebody happy.
  • To come out: To appear, to be seen.
  • To come around: To change one's mind, to change one's opinion, agree.
  • To come down on: To scold or punish.
  • To come up: Appear (on the computer screen), happen, or arise.
  • To come up against: Chocarse con.
  • To come up with: To produce or supply (an idea, a plan).
  • To come to (someone): Remember or recall.
  • To come about: To happen.
  • To come across: To find.
  • To come down with: To become sick.
  • To come off: Work.
  • To cut back on: Reduce.
  • To cut down: Reduce.
  • To end up: Finish or result in.
  • To get along with: Be friendly with.
  • To get around: Spread (news).
  • To get around to something: Finally do something.
  • To get away with something: Do something wrong without punishment.
  • To get by: Have enough to survive.
  • To get down to: Become serious about.
  • To get in with: To hang out with someone or become popular/friendly with someone.
  • To get on with something: Continue with something.
  • To get out: Leave or move (e.g., "Get out of my way!").
  • To get over something: Stop thinking about something.
  • To get over with: Finish.
  • To get somebody down: Depress.
  • To get something across: Convey.
  • To get something in: Submit.
  • To get something off: Dispatch.
  • To hang around: Stay, to be somewhere.
  • To help (someone) out: To give a hand or to assist.
  • To jump at (the opportunity/chance): Aprovechar.
  • To make off with: Steal.
  • To make up for: Compensate or offset.
  • To pay off: Pay a debt back or that it was worth it (e.g., Studying paid off).
  • To run out of something: Be left without.
  • To settle in: Become familiar with a place (adaptarse).
  • To take on: To hire or employ someone.
  • To track down: Find (rastrear/seguir).
  • To turn up: To appear (something or someone).

Key English Vocabulary Terms

  • Framework: Infraestructura.
  • Update: Actualizar.
  • Upturn: An improvement or a change to a higher level or value.
  • Outfall: Desembocadura.
  • Outbreak: Brote, estallido, explosión, erupción, comienzo.
  • Windfall: Windfall profits (ganancias inesperadas).
  • Windbreak: Rompeviento.
  • Windproof: A prueba de viento.
  • Rainfall: Lluvia, precipitación.
  • Rainproof: A prueba de lluvia.
  • Creditworthy: Solvent, que puede pagar.
  • Downfall: Caída.
  • Downturn: Crisis.

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