Phrasal Verbs (informal) One-word Verbs (formal)
Bring out cause
Carry on continue, transact
Carry out complete, accomplish
Clear up clarify
Come about happen
Come across find
Come by find accidentally
Come out with publish, produce
Come up with create
Cut down on reduce
Fall through fail
Figure out understand
Find out discover
Give off emit
Go after follow
Go back reduce
Go before precede
Go down decrease
Go on continue, happen
Go over review
Go through experience, penetrate
Go up increase
Keep on continue
Leave out exclude, omit
Look for seek
Look into investigate
Look like resemble
Look over examine
Look up locate information
Look up to respect
Make out understand with difficulty
Make up invent, compose
Pick out select
Point out show, indicate
Put off postpone
Put up with tolerate
Rule out eliminate
Run across find accidentally
Run into meet by accident
Set up arrange
Show up appear unexpectedly
Spell out state in detail
Stand for represent
Stick out protrude
Take into account consider
Take over assume control
Take place occur
Think through reason
Throw away discard
Touch on mention briefly
Try out test
Turn into transform
Turn out conclude
Turn up discover
Wind up finish
Work out active
Write up report