Advanced Vocabulary 16 | Baamboozle - Baamboozle

to decide something will not happen or is not suitable - A knee injury will _____________ of playing football for the rest of the season.

rule you out

run you out

ruin you from

rub you out

Someone in a group with the same age, position, or ability - Experiencing _________ pressure at school is one of the reasons some students do not go on to college.

peer

group

scholastic

teen

Oil that has come out of a container - There was an oil __________ and many of the water birds had to be rescued.

spill

spread

soil

stain

Experiencing problems - Bill and Tommy are in __________ with their parents.

trouble

problem

hassle

danger

try very hard to achieve something - If you really want to be a nurse, I think you should _________.

go for it

try for it

attempt for it

reach for it

start to succeed - They found it hard to get the company _____________ at first.

off the ground

operating full

open and well

on to start

was more than a particular number or amount - The amount of people who signed up for the course ____________ what the teacher expected.

exceeded

surplussed

overwhelmed

upped

one who starts a business, especially when it involves risks - He was an __________ and started his computer repair business when he was only 18.

entrepreneur

anprender

ambitioner

amprendor

to sign up to become an official member of a course, college, or group - Susi wants to _________ in a flight school to get a pilot´s license.

enrol

enlist

inscribe

ingress

unhappy and hopeless, especially because of a disappointment - Dave was __________ after his divorce and did not leave the house for months. (not depressed)

downhearted

deceived

deepcast

deprived

a good salary compared to the amount paid for similar jobs - I don´t want to work for a company that does not give a _________ salary.

competitive

competent

conventional

complementative

a lot of something - There is an __________ of shoppers in town on a Friday.

abundance

bundence

abundence

bundance

finally, after a series of things have happened - They will _____________ have to find a new apartment.

ultimately

concludingly

endingly

utterly

to make money available for use on your mobile phone - I need to go to the shop and _________ the minutes on my phone.

top up

tip up

full up

fill up

to buy something - You get a free drink for every two that you __________.

purchase

pay

won

shop for

to watch carefully for something - Can you keep an ____________ for the postman? I need to give him this letter.

eye open

eye on for

eye over for

eye in for

designed to be suitable for a particular purpose, or situation - The course is ___________ towards people who want to study medicine.

geared

made

managed

moved

as soon as you like or can - Please come get the book you ordered at your _________.

earliest convenience

soonest chance

next opportunity

first possibility

good enough - My writing assignment was not ___________.

up to the mark

in the mark

to the mark

with the mark

Ill or sick - You don´t look well. Are you feeling ___________?

under the weather

off the well

off the wagon

under the wind

Immediately - He decided ___________ to stop watching that series.

then and there

on the dot

at the minute

at the spot

to notice a difference in quality between two things - I cannot ________ the difference between the twins.

tell

say

get

make

Joking or saying unkind things to others for fun or to upset them - Don´t ___________ me! I did not have time to do my hair this morning.

tease

joke

bull

push

unsuccessful but trying hard to succeed - We were ____________ to finish the homework on time.

struggling

juggling

stirring

streaming

to start or develop as the result of something - Her health problems ________ from an accident she had when she was younger.

stem

start

stream

short

loving someone or liking something very much - The girl was completely ________ with the boy!

smitten

snowed

stuck

smashed