Share Proficiency Expert Unit 2 Review
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The country was r______ by civil war and hasn't recovered.
ravaged
The papers keep trying to DU details of his past love life. (talk about sth bad from the past)
dredge up
This drug could be a major b______ for cancer treatment. (important discovery)
breakthrough
Businesses are TI to the popularity of TikTok in order to tout their products.
tapping into
The meat was declared unfit for human c________.
consumption
The car s_____ to a halt just before the cliff. (animal noise)
screeched
Their boss loved to b_____ orders at them and do very little himself. (animal noise)
bark
He b_____ with rage when he found out that they had run out of beer. (animal noise)
bellowed
(n) the reduction of something by a large amount so that there is not enough left. e.g. "Many scientists are concerned by the d____ of the o-zone layer."
depletion/degradation
The police are trying to CDO cyberbullying and bring the culprits to justice.
crack down on
They HO strict fines if you drop litter in Singapore.
hand out
The whole village was WO by a deadly virus.
wiped out
We expect to CUA a lot of opposition to our plan for a 6-day working week.
come up against
A long time ago, the dinosaurs DO.
died out
Long hair seems to be CB into fashion again for men (phrasal meaning to become popular again)
coming back
(adj) bad-tempered. e.g. "Don't listen to that angry old fool. He's just a g____ old man."
grumpy
