SET VI, ESL 6c

Two-Word Verbs

Combinations with up

1. bear up - show stamina and courage in a difficult situation

2. break up - come to an end, put and end to

3. bring up - introduce into conversation for the first time to rear

4. call up - telephone to

5. clear up - solve or be solved; rid of or be rid of imperfections

6. come up - be introduced into a converstion

7. cut up - have fun; behave mischievously; joke cut into pieces

8. get up - rise from a chair or bed; prepare or organize

9. give up - admit defeat, stop trying, relinquish or forego

10. hold up - delay; rob at gunpoint

11. let up - diminish

12. look up - find

13. look up (to) - respect

14. make up - become reconciled; invent; apply cosmetics

15. make up (one's mind) - decide

16. mix up - confuse, mix together

17. show up - appear, usually under the circumstances of being expected

18. take up - undertake, begin an interest in

19. turn up - appear, usually unexpected