Strategy 1: Using the Context to Understand Words – Answer Key

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  1. To sound less formal, you could change “I’m interested in folk music” to “I’m INTO folk music.”
  2. “I ran INTO my old teacher” is a casual way of saying “I met my former instructor.”
  3. Talking about electronic signals, if the reception is poor, you could say a person’s voice is cutting “OUT.”
  4. As with other phrasal verbs, “give UP” is more informal than “quit.”