Verb Pairs

We ......... off early on the first day of summer so that we could see the sun rise.

The police officer warned us that the road ahead was ......

I can see from the expression on your face that you haven't ......

They spent their first day as a married couple ..... about the streets of Venice as tourists.

He thought he could make it but after considering the complicated situation, he ..... all hope.

Although he was very sick, he didn't even try to ..... drinking.

The heavily loaded wagon ..... along the old cobbled road.

Mary is a very calm and patient mother but lately she often ..... her naughty son.

What he did was inappropriate to his social status; as the president of the country, he didn't realize what a(n) ..... he had made.

Push' strategies give incentives to distributors and retailers to stock and push their products, but this metaphor ..... the received marketing wisdom of finding and satisfying a need, not imposing the product on the customer.