Preposition 'Back' - Phrasal Verb Quiz

Quiz for Verb: 'To back'

Choose the correct definition for each phrasal verb...

'Set back' means...

Cost

Try to help, or contact someone to try to help

Use power, contacts, etc, to force someone out

'Cut back' means...

Reduce

Sleep on something other than a bed

Pretend

'Win back' means...

Start a journey

Win something again that you had lost

Appear, like windows and boxes opening on a computer screen.

'Pull back' means...

Sign a document joining or agreeing to something

Decide not to do something or not to be involved with it any longer

Meet someone

'Pay back' means...

Take revenge on

Leave a vehicle.

Focus more closely

'Knock back' means...

Not be noticed (problems, errors, etc)

Cost someone a lot of money

Move in a dramatic or affected manner

'Take back' means...

Retract a statement, admit that something was wrong

Fall to the ground

Fill a venue

'Plow back' means...

Re-invest money you have made into a business

Be accepted as something, usually when not

Not go to bed because you are waiting

'Knock back' means...

Finish a drink quickly, drink a lot of alcohol

To return to a place.

Mention. Raise a topic for discussion.

'Sit back' means...

Write to get information

Relax in a chair

Avoid doing something

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