Cover of the textbook English File Advanced - Student's Book

The key answer of exercise 2

The key to exercise solutions in chapter 8A - The best medicine? for the textbook English File Advanced - Student's Book with authors Christina Latham-Koenig, Clive Oxenden, Jerry Lambert and Kate Chomacki from Oxford University Press

Question

Look at the highlighted phrases in the article and focus on the bold verbs. With a partner, decide what they mean.

Answer

  1. outweigh = are greater or more important than sth
  2. sink = move downwards
  3. underestimate = think that the amount, cost, or size of sth is smaller than it really is
  4. wean themselves off = make themselves gradually stop doing or using sth
  5. stuck to = continued doing sth despite difficulties
  6. be undertaken = be done
  7. varies = changes or is different according to the situation