Phrasal Verbs
To keep some money for a future purchase:
Save up
Give me any sentence using the past perfect continuous.
"They had been studying in school all day before St James." for example
Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes
The area of a shop where you exchange money for goods:
The till (British) / cash register (Americanese)
Who is credited with coming up with the theory of evolution through natural selection ?
Charles Darwin
To return the money you owe to someone:
Pay up / pay back
"They are all the days very busy" make this sentence sound more natural.
"They are very busy everyday"
In 2016, which performing artist was the controversial choice by the Nobel Prize committee for the Nobel Prize in Literature ?
Bob Dylan
A legal state in which you have completely run out of assets to cover your obligations
Bankruptcy / Bankrupt
Light is a component of the electromagnetic spectrum. Name two others parts of this spectrum.
Radio, Microwaves, infrared, ultraviolet, X-rays, gamma rays.
To manage with little money:
Get by
What connotational difference is there between the sentences "He tries very hard" and "He does try very hard"
We use the auxiliary "do" to emphasise veracity and to contradict doubt. We can also use it to be ironic.
Name any three fictional vampires.
Count Dracula, Carmilla / Mircalla, Count Orlok, Vathek, Kurt Barlow, Louis de Pointe du Lac, Lestat de Lioncourt, Akasha, Armand, Marius de Romanus, Edward Cullen, Bella Swan, the rest of the Cullens (I'm not writing them all down here), Elena Gilbert, the Brothers Salvatore, Bill Compton, Tara Thornton, etc etc.
What is the difference between a purse and a wallet?
A wallet is a flat object for storing cards and cash, whereas a purse is more shaped like a bag and has spaces for storing coins also. Traditionally, wallets were associated with men and purses with women, though this is less the case now.
What do we call an volcano that is still on a fault or fissure, but is not actively erupting?
Dormant.
To get revenge on someone:
Pay back
"Luisa is a great student, but I'd have been very pleased if had come to class more often." - where is the error?
"Luisa is a great student, but I'd have been very pleased if she had come to class more often."
Name any three poetic forms.
Acrostic, Free Verse, Sonnet, Limerick, Aisling, Villanelle, Elegy, Haiku, Sestina, Ode, Skolion, Roundel, Aubade, Quintain, Ballad, Reverdie, etc etc
What is a grant?
Money given by the government to fund a social, academic, or artistic project.
What do we call Earth's largest desert?
Antarctica.
To give someone money, often illegally, in exchange for their doing something dishonesty on your behalf:
Pay off
Give me any sentence using the future perfect continuous in the passive voice.
"The course will have been completed by the end of June" for example.
The essay collection "A Room of One's Own" was written by which 20th century feminist modernist?
Virginia Woolf.
What does the term 'tight-fisted' mean? Can you use it in a sentence?
"The company was so tight-fisted that they did not hire extra workers when their employees were off sick."
Which element is named after the Greek word for green-yellow?
(Double points if you can give me the Greek word)
Chlorine (χλωρός / khlōros)