VERB
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study intensively, as before an exam
I had to bone up on my Latin verbs before the final exam
How To Use swot up In A Sentence
- One, who chose a college in northwest London to swot up on his GCSE science over Easter, found himself in a class of 30.
- She likes Charles Dickens' novels - Nicholas Nickleby is her favourite - and after choosing her specialist subject she then had a fortnight to swot up on the writer.
- I have to swot up on phrasal verbs for a test tomorrow.
- Well, you better swot up quickly or you could be fined, become uninsurable or be delisted from a stock exchange.
- I hope it restores a little bit of national pride. It was also a huge surprise. I didn't have time to swot up so I just breezed in and did the best I could.
- The election of Britain's first Green Party MP would make a tangible difference: on 6 May, every Labour MP would begin nervously to swot up on climate change.
- No need to swot up on policy documents. The Sun
- The 19-year-old added: ‘I watch England whenever they play but will have to definitely swot up on my Arsenal knowledge.’
- The new site offers visitors not just information on the school, but a chance to swot up on subjects as well.
- Once you have located the source of potential trouble, your next step is to go, not to the doctor, but to the bookshop to swot up your symptoms in a health manual.