5th box -Flashcards

Multiple choice questions

Question:

1. to stall

– to watch someone very closely, usually making the person being watched uncomfortable * Stop breathing down my neck! I’ll finish cooking dinner faster if you stop bothering me.
– the boundaries or the outside limit of something * The wide scope of power he has in this company allows him to make decisions at all levels of management.
– a phrase used to mean that it is too late to ask for something now; you should have asked for it earlier * The time to ask for a day off this week was last week when I was making up the schedule.
– to delay to give yourself more time * He didn’t have enough money to pay his rent and tried to stall the landlord by telling her that he had already sent a check in the mail.

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