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2CONV0024 Verb


576. cover with bread crumbs; ""bread the pork chops before frying them""
A. case
B. bread
C. day
D. ball

577. fry in a pan until it changes color; ""brown the meat in the pan""
A. card
B. brown
C. camp
D. break

578. send or move around by bus; ""The children were bussed to school""
A. butter
B. burn
C. bus
D. ball

579. obtain by purchase; acquire by means of a financial transaction; ""The family purchased a new car""; ""The conglomerate acquired a new company""; ""She buys for the big department store""
A. play
B. control
C. buy
D. bicycle

580. assign a specified, proper name to; ""They named their son David""; ""The new school was named after the famous Civil Rights leader""
A. call
B. together
C. coat
D. bait

581. preserve in a can or tin; ""tinned foods are not very tasty""
A. dime
B. can
C. city
D. meet

582. put quickly or forcibly; ""The judge clapped him in jail""
A. book
B. corner
C. clap
D. country

583. arrange or order by classes or categories; ""How would you classify these pottery shards
A. check
B. net
C. class
D. easy

584. make clean by removing dirt, filth, or unwanted substances from; ""Clean the stove!""; ""The dentist cleaned my teeth""
A. tomorrow
B. chair
C. clean
D. thumb

585. add color to; ""The child colored the drawings""; ""Fall colored the trees""; ""colorize black and white film""
A. color
B. low
C. desert
D. round

586. move toward, travel toward something or somebody or approach something or somebody; ""He came singing down the road""; ""Come with me to the Casbah""; ""come down here!""; ""come out of the closet!""; ""come into the room""
A. year
B. come
C. action
D. then

587. separate with or as if with an instrument; ""Cut the rope""
A. cut
B. bicycle
C. jump
D. blue

588. turn up, loosen, or remove earth; ""Dig we must""; ""turn over the soil for aeration""
A. clothes
B. country
C. dig
D. little

589. provide (usually but not necessarily food); ""We serve meals for the homeless""; ""She dished out the soup at 8 P.M.""; ""The entertainers served up a lively show""
A. agree
B. red
C. dish
D. milk

590. engage in; ""make love, not war""; ""make an effort""; ""do research""; ""do nothing""; ""make revolution""
A. have
B. dirt
C. do
D. easy

591. go after with the intent to catch; ""The policeman chased the mugger down the alley""; ""the dog chased the rabbit""
A. dog
B. as
C. think
D. out

592. drink down entirely; ""He downed three martinis before dinner""; ""She killed a bottle of brandy that night""; ""They popped a few beer after work""
A. white
B. dog
C. down
D. cow

593. take in liquids; ""The patient must drink several liters each day""; ""The children like to drink soda""
A. bed
B. chosen
C. girl
D. drink

594. let fall to the ground; ""Don't drop the dishes""
A. moon
B. I
C. drop
D. climb

595. take in solid food; ""She was eating a banana""; ""What did you eat for dinner last night?""
A. fish
B. move
C. in
D. eat

596. have an end, in a temporal, spatial, or quantitative sense; either spatial or metaphorical; ""the bronchioles terminate in a capillary bed""; ""Your rights stop where you infringe upon the rights of other""; ""My property ends by the
A. bark
B. pink
C. end
D. just

597. descend in free fall under the influence of gravity; ""The branch fell from the tree""; ""The unfortunate hiker fell into a crevasse""
A. fall
B. sang
C. down
D. sun

598. abstain from certain foods, as for religious or medical reasons; ""Catholics sometimes fast during Lent""
A. bright
B. build
C. read
D. fast

599. make fat or plump; ""We will plump out that poor starving child""
A. fat
B. sang
C. stop
D. toy

600. make children; ""Abraham begot Isaac""; ""Men often father children but don't recognize them""
A. desert
B. father
C. breath
D. yet

 

ANSWERS


  1. (B) bread
  2. (B) brown
  3. (C) bus
  4. (C) buy
  5. (A) call
  6. (B) can
  7. (C) clap
  8. (C) class
  9. (C) clean
  10. (A) color
  11. (B) come
  12. (A) cut
  13. (C) dig
  14. (C) dish
  15. (C) do
  16. (A) dog
  17. (C) down
  18. (D) drink
  19. (C) drop
  20. (D) eat
  21. (C) end
  22. (A) fall
  23. (D) fast
  24. (A) fat
  25. (B) father
  26. bread-->Verb-->cover with bread crumbs; ""bread the pork chops before frying them""
  27. brown-->Verb-->fry in a pan until it changes color; ""brown the meat in the pan""
  28. bus-->Verb-->send or move around by bus; ""The children were bussed to school""
  29. buy-->Verb-->obtain by purchase; acquire by means of a financial transaction; ""The family purchased a new car""; ""The conglomerate acquired a new company""; ""She buys for the big department store""
  30. call-->Verb-->assign a specified, proper name to; ""They named their son David""; ""The new school was named after the famous Civil Rights leader""
  31. can-->Verb-->preserve in a can or tin; ""tinned foods are not very tasty""
  32. clap-->Verb-->put quickly or forcibly; ""The judge clapped him in jail""
  33. class-->Verb-->arrange or order by classes or categories; ""How would you classify these pottery shards
  34. clean-->Verb-->make clean by removing dirt, filth, or unwanted substances from; ""Clean the stove!""; ""The dentist cleaned my teeth""
  35. color-->Verb-->add color to; ""The child colored the drawings""; ""Fall colored the trees""; ""colorize black and white film""
  36. come-->Verb-->move toward, travel toward something or somebody or approach something or somebody; ""He came singing down the road""; ""Come with me to the Casbah""; ""come down here!""; ""come out of the closet!""; ""come into the room""
  37. cut-->Verb-->separate with or as if with an instrument; ""Cut the rope""
  38. dig-->Verb-->turn up, loosen, or remove earth; ""Dig we must""; ""turn over the soil for aeration""
  39. dish-->Verb-->provide (usually but not necessarily food); ""We serve meals for the homeless""; ""She dished out the soup at 8 P.M.""; ""The entertainers served up a lively show""
  40. do-->Verb-->engage in; ""make love, not war""; ""make an effort""; ""do research""; ""do nothing""; ""make revolution""
  41. dog-->Verb-->go after with the intent to catch; ""The policeman chased the mugger down the alley""; ""the dog chased the rabbit""
  42. down-->Verb-->drink down entirely; ""He downed three martinis before dinner""; ""She killed a bottle of brandy that night""; ""They popped a few beer after work""
  43. drink-->Verb-->take in liquids; ""The patient must drink several liters each day""; ""The children like to drink soda""
  44. drop-->Verb-->let fall to the ground; ""Don't drop the dishes""
  45. eat-->Verb-->take in solid food; ""She was eating a banana""; ""What did you eat for dinner last night?""
  46. end-->Verb-->have an end, in a temporal, spatial, or quantitative sense; either spatial or metaphorical; ""the bronchioles terminate in a capillary bed""; ""Your rights stop where you infringe upon the rights of other""; ""My property ends by the
  47. fall-->Verb-->descend in free fall under the influence of gravity; ""The branch fell from the tree""; ""The unfortunate hiker fell into a crevasse""
  48. fast-->Verb-->abstain from certain foods, as for religious or medical reasons; ""Catholics sometimes fast during Lent""
  49. fat-->Verb-->make fat or plump; ""We will plump out that poor starving child""
  50. father-->Verb-->make children; ""Abraham begot Isaac""; ""Men often father children but don't recognize them""

 

 

PROFESSOR STEVEN DONAHUE MIAMI DADE COLLEGE  


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