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Proficiency Expert Unit 2 Review

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  • I think you'll have to t____ (make slight changes to) these figures a little before you show them to the boss.
    tweak
  • Every new project has TPs. (issues at the beginning)
    teething problems
  • (adj) bad-tempered. e.g. "Don't listen to that angry old fool. He's just a g____ old man."
    grumpy
  • The police are trying to CDO cyberbullying and bring the culprits to justice.
    crack down on
  • I decided to do it OAW. I just thought 'why not?' and I signed up at the last minute.
    on a whim
  • I was a bit worried, but her calm manner really PMAE.
    put me at ease
  • We expect to CUA a lot of opposition to our plan for a 6-day working week.
    come up against
  • This drug could be a major b______ for cancer treatment. (important discovery)
    breakthrough
  • The meat was declared unfit for human c________.
    consumption
  • The whole village was WO by a deadly virus.
    wiped out
  • They HO strict fines if you drop litter in Singapore.
    hand out
  • "Uuuf! I can't GRO this headache."
    get rid of
  • He has just run 15 kms but still he SNSO being tired.
    shows no sign of
  • Long hair seems to be CB into fashion again for men (phrasal meaning to become popular again)
    coming back
  • 1,400 euros for a phone AT daylight robbery! (be the same as)
    amounts to
  • "It's important to be able to SBF things and not to see things so subjectively in the heat of the moment."
    step back from
  • Their boss loved to b_____ orders at them and do very little himself. (animal noise)
    bark
  • The car s_____ to a halt just before the cliff. (animal noise)
    screeched
  • The papers keep trying to DU details of his past love life. (talk about sth bad from the past)
    dredge up
  • The country was r______ by civil war and hasn't recovered.
    ravaged
  • Businesses are TI to the popularity of TikTok in order to tout their products.
    tapping into
  • Kettlebell workouts can really WH on your back (cause great damage to)
    wreak havoc
  • He b_____ with rage when he found out that they had run out of beer. (animal noise)
    bellowed
  • A long time ago, the dinosaurs DO.
    died out
  • (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