Phrasal Verbs asked in WBCS

Phrasal Verbs asked in WBCS

Here is the list of those questions asked in West Bengal Civil Services examinations from the chapter Phrasal Verbs. By the by, you can go through all the Phrasal Verbs or Group Verbs here in the vocabulary section.

  1. Bear with – tolerance
  2. Call out – He wanted to call out.
  3. Call up – recollect
  4. Cast up – In a moment of a hurry, the files had been cast up by Hamilton.
  5. Come across – The detective suddenly came across a useful clue.
  6. Draw out – As soon as January is over the days begin to draw out noticeably. (get longer)
  7. Fizzle out – After a promising start, his career soon came to an end in a disappointing way.
  8. Get by – make both ends meet
  9. Get through – I usually get through my salary by the middle of the month. (use up)
  10. Give in – After much resistance, the robbers gave in to the police. (Yielded)
  11. Go back on – His friend went back on his word much to his deeper.
  12. Go by – You cannot go by appearances. (judge from)
  13. Hang on – If you can hang on a second. I will look for my brother and tell him you are on the phone for him. (wait)
  14. Hold on – I will hold on her case as a precedent to my job until May.
  15. Hold up – There was a hold up on the midnight train.
  16. Kept in – Confined
  17. Lay off – To spread out
  18. Let up – There was no let up in the rain.
  19. Look over upon – Never look over upon the marginalized.
  20. Look up – They decided to look up his number in the yellow pages.
  21. Made away – The thief made away with the ornaments.
  22. Make out – I cannot make out what he wishes to say. (understand)
  23. Make out – Would you make out the bill, please? (write or fill in forms, cheques, etc.)
  24. Pass away – After prolonged suffering, he passed away. (Expired)
  25. Put by – We should put something by for rainy days.
  26. Put up – We can put you up if you are staying in town overnight. (give accommodation)
  27. Put up with – The boss simply could not put up with his inefficiency anymore.
  28. Take after – The girl takes after her mother.
  29. Take in – This book is difficult to understand, and when I’m tired I can’t take in what the author means. (understand)
  30. Take up – The teacher will take up a new chapter tomorrow.
  31. Tide over – After much effort, he could tied over the crisis. (overcome)
  32. Ties in – The evidence ties in with what one already knows.