UFS201-3rd Vocabulary Entry

1. Tear
     Tear something up: rip into pieces
     eg: I tear up my ex-boyfriend's letters and give them back to him.

     Tear down: destroy
     eg: The country decided to tear down the dilapidated school and build a new one.

2. Fall
     Fall down: fall to the ground
     eg: the picture that you hung up last night fell down this morning.

     Fall out: separate from an interior
     eg: the money must have fallen out of my pocket.

3. Break
     Break down: get upset
     eg: the woman broke down when the police told her that her son had died.

     Break up: end a relationship
     eg: My boyfriend and I broke up before I moved to America.

4. Stand
     Stand for: represent
    eg: word SCUBA stand for "self contained underwater breathing apparatus"

     Stand up to: keep your principles when challenged by an authority
     eg: she stand up to the police when they tried to corrupt her.

5. Keep
     Keep something/someone out: stop from entering
     eg: try to the wet dog out of the living room

     Keep something up: continue at the same rate
     eg: if I keep those results up you will get into a great collage.

6. Turn
     Turn something down: refuse
     eg: I turned the job down because while the guests are here

     Turn up: appear suddenly
     eg: our cat turned up after we put  all over the neighborhood.

7. Pull
     Pull through: barely survive
     eg: I didn't think she was going to make it, but pulled through in the end.

     Pull away: when a vehicle moves from a place
     eg: the car pulled away from the lights at high speed.

8. Walk
     Walk away from: walk away for something
     eg: when you walk away from something, you leave an unpleasant situation instead of
          dealing with it.

     Walk on: when you walk, you continue walking
     eg: he stopped and had a chat with her and then walked on.

9. Back
     Back something up: reverse
     eg: you'll have to back up your car so that I can get out.

     Back someone up: support
     eg: my wife backed me up over my decision to quit my job.

10. Take
     Take something back: return an item
     eg: I have to take our new TV back because it doesn't work

     Take off: start to fly
     eg: my plane takes off in five minutes.