Match the phrasal verbs in List-I with their meanings in List-II.List…

Match the phrasal verbs in List-I with their meanings in List-II.

List-I (Phrasal verbs)	List-II (Meanings)
(A) Hold forth	(I) to waste money or time little by little on things that do not matter
(B) Fob off	(II) to talk for a long time about a subject, often in a way others find dull
(C) Drum up	(III) to work hard to get support, interest or business
(D) Fritter away	(IV) to send someone away with an excuse or something of poor quality

Choose the correct answer from the options given below:

Answer & explanation

Correct answer: option 3

The correct answer is Option (3) → (A)-(II), (B)-(IV), (C)-(III), (D)-(I)

A phrasal verb is a verb joined with a small word such as up, out or together. The two words together have a new meaning.

List-I	List-II	Explanation	Example
(A) Hold forth	(II) to talk for a long time about a subject, often in a way others find dull	To hold forth is to go on talking about something for a long time. The listeners often get bored.	At every family wedding, Mama holds forth on cricket for hours.
(B) Fob off	(IV) to send someone away with an excuse or something of poor quality	To fob off a person is to get rid of them with an excuse, or to make them accept something poor.	The shopkeeper tried to fob us off with an old model of the mixer.
(C) Drum up	(III) to work hard to get support, interest or business	To drum up something is to make an effort to get it from people, such as support or customers.	The students put up posters to drum up support for the blood donation camp.
(D) Fritter away	(I) to waste money or time little by little on things that do not matter	To fritter away money or time is to waste it slowly, a little at a time, on small useless things.	Aman frittered away his pocket money on snacks and had nothing left for the book fair.

Match the phrasal verbs in List-I with their meanings in List-II.

List-I (Phrasal verbs)	List-II (Meanings)
(A) Hold forth	(I) to waste money or time little by little on things that do not matter
(B) Fob off	(II) to talk for a long time about a subject, often in a way others find dull
(C) Drum up	(III) to work hard to get support, interest or business
(D) Fritter away	(IV) to send someone away with an excuse or something of poor quality

Choose the correct answer from the options given below:

Answer & explanation

Correct answer: option 3

The correct answer is Option (3) → (A)-(II), (B)-(IV), (C)-(III), (D)-(I)

A phrasal verb is a verb joined with a small word such as up, out or together. The two words together have a new meaning.

List-I	List-II	Explanation	Example
(A) Hold forth	(II) to talk for a long time about a subject, often in a way others find dull	To hold forth is to go on talking about something for a long time. The listeners often get bored.	At every family wedding, Mama holds forth on cricket for hours.
(B) Fob off	(IV) to send someone away with an excuse or something of poor quality	To fob off a person is to get rid of them with an excuse, or to make them accept something poor.	The shopkeeper tried to fob us off with an old model of the mixer.
(C) Drum up	(III) to work hard to get support, interest or business	To drum up something is to make an effort to get it from people, such as support or customers.	The students put up posters to drum up support for the blood donation camp.
(D) Fritter away	(I) to waste money or time little by little on things that do not matter	To fritter away money or time is to waste it slowly, a little at a time, on small useless things.	Aman frittered away his pocket money on snacks and had nothing left for the book fair.