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4 Vocabulary Time

4.1. Take /teIk/ means accept, move or remove. Know these

idioms about take.

a. take care : to be careful / to mind

Use : Take care of yourself and the children.

b. take leave : to depart / leave

Use : Don’t take leave now. Please stay for a
few more days.

c. take after : to follow
Use : She exactly took after her

mother’s habit of biting

nails.

d. take off : to leave the ground and

begin flight especially by

aircrafts

Use : Ajay Devgan and Juhi
Chawla reached the airport

before the plane took off.

e. take up : To begin doing on a regular basis
Use : I am planning to take up morning walk.

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