Anxious about

Anxious (=troubled) about, not for.

Don't say: They're anxious for his health.

• Say: They're anxious about his health.

Note: Anxious meaning wishing very mush takes for:

• Parents are anxious for their children's success.

CHECKOUT

CHECKOUT

• People get furious with the long queues at the checkout.
• Every time I pay at the checkout I realize how expensive life is.

PRECISE

PRECISE

• Experiments and measurements carried out on a human must be very precise. Any mistake could be fatal.
• He is very precise in his calculations. That's why he rarely makes mistakes.

TO SETTLE DOWN

TO SETTLE DOWN

• Have you already settled down in your new school?
• How are you settling down as a wife and mother? Is there anything I can help you with?

TO GIVE UP

TO GIVE UP

• My New Year's resolution was to give up smoking and start living a healthier life.
• I tried so hard to discourage her from marrying him, but she was so stubborn that I finally gave up.

TO LOCK

TO LOCK

• He had never locked the door for a night before there was a burglary in his flat.
• Pirates locked all their treasures in a chest.

SEMINAL

SEMINAL

• Charles Darwin's evolutionary theory was seminal not only to biology, but also to anthropology, philosophy and psychology.
• Röntgen's discovery of X-rays was a great scientific achievement, seminal to the medicine.

TO MAKE OUT

TO MAKE OUT

• I could hear their voices, but I couldn't make out what they were talking about. It was noisy outside.
• He makes out that he's a qualified translator, but his English is not fluent.

TO WINCE

TO WINCE

• I'm afraid of snakes and I always wince when I see them.
• She winced when he told her how much they have to pay.

GLOSS

GLOSS

• He still remembers the gloss on her hair when she turned her face into the sun. He fell in love at once.
• The new shoe cream provides a high gloss to your leather shoes!