Enhance your vocabulary-2

Replace each of the verb phrases in the statements with the verbs of similar meaning from the options given below:

• submerge
• end
• reduce
• reject
• confess
• support
• encircle
• establish
• manage
• surrender
• complete

(remember to make changes in the form of the verbs, if required)

 

e.g. You may come in now.

You may enter now.

 

1. He will soon set up his new business.
2. The baby loves to go round his toys.
3. I have a back up resource in case of the power failure.
4. Don’t give up at this stage.
5. You must own up to your mistakes.
6. He will serve out his term next year.
7. I wished my friend an early recovery and hung up the conversation.
8. A metal plate will not float on water surface but will go under.
9. Around ten companies turned down my proposal before I finally got my sponsor.
10. How will you make out at a new place in a new country?
11. You must boil down this mixture to its half.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Answers:

1. establish
2. encircle
3. support
4. surrender
5. confess
6. complete
7. ended
8. submerge
9. rejected
10. manage
11. reduce