Preposition 'Up' - Phrasal Verb Quiz

Quiz for Verb: 'To up'

Choose the correct definition for each phrasal verb...

'Scrape up' means...

Enlarge (e.g., photograph).

Manage to collect enough of something you need, usually money

Go to a place where someone is leaving to wave goodbye

'Play up' means...

Listen for a particular noise or sound

Behave badly

Keep a job

'Open up' means...

Allow goods into a market

Start doing or taking something

Make someone nostalgic

'Spice up' means...

Repulse, force back

Add spices or herbs to increase flavour

Close, attach

'Trade up' means...

Buy larger or more expensive items

Assume a responsibility or accept a challenge.

Cover with clothing, usually to keep warm

'Start up' means...

Enter a profession, hospital, trade, market

Open a business

Improve (weather)

'Dig up' means...

Remove something from the ground

Start living a fixed and routine life

Have or do something at the end or as the last of something

'Ramp up' means...

Increase amount, price, speed or power of something

Write something quickly without much preparation

Start working (electric/electronic equipment)

'Ice up' means...

Become covered with ice in a way that stops something from working well

Move at the same rate

Move in front of

'Duff up' means...

Pass a test but only just

Remove item of clothing quickly

Beat or hit someone repeatedly

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