Study Material of the Day

Phrasal Verb of the Day: Make __ up

(A note from Jon The Sherpa: "This is easily one of the most complicated of the phrasals, and most commonly used. Study it carefully").

1. Prepare something: to get something ready, especially by putting a number of items together (transitive verb). "I've made up a box lunch". (The preposition is not necessary)
2. Form a whole: to be the constituent members or parts that together form a whole (transitive). "A group made up of four men and six women".
3. Constitute something: to be a particular part or proportion of something (transitive). "Women make up more than half the country's work force".
4. Provide supplementary quantity: to provide something, e.g. an additional sum of money, to raise an existing amount to the required amount (transitive). "You three pay $10 each and I'll make up the rest".
5. Compensate: to compensate for a failing such as a disappointment, deficiency, or shortcoming (intransitive) "I'll buy lunch to make up for being late".
6. Fabricate story: to invent an excuse, fact, or story(transitive). "She made the whole story up to shock her parents".
7. Put on facial cosmetics: to apply cosmetics to your own face or somebody else's face (transitive). "My female roommate used to spend an hour making up her face"
8. Prepare appearance for performance: to prepare somebody or yourself for an acting performance by applying cosmetics and fitting costumes necessary for assuming a given role (transitive and intransitive) "It takes her two hours to make up for the role".
9. Resolve quarrel: to become friends again after a quarrel (transitive and intransitive) "Haven't you two made up yet?"
10. Take exam, course, or to stage an event again: to take an examination or course of study again because of absence or failure transitive verb (transitive). "I had to make up a French exam"
11.Printing arrange layout of page: to arrange columns of print and illustrations on a page ( transitive).

Make-up is also used as a noun in the case of cosmetics and as an adjective in the case of the tenth definition, "There is a make-up game scheduled for next week due to cancellation from yesterday's rain" or, "I am taking a make-up exam today"
Idiom of the Day: Water Under The Bridge

Meaning: Anything from the past that isn't significant or important anymore, or something that is over and gone and so not worth thinking any more about.
"My sister and I fought when we were children, but that's water under the bridge" or "she used to go out with the boy next door, but that's all water under the bridge. She married someone else long ago."