Vocabulary - Verbs with different meanings 'HOLD'

Match the words in bold with a suitable alternative. The tiles in the right-hand column are sortable. ANSWERS

• In Misrata, there is no sign of the regime's willingness to hold fire.
• Mr Roberts is busy at the moment – would you like to hold?
• The footbridge didn’t look as though it would hold.
• The judge held that the child’s interests in this case must come first.
• Twenty per cent of our shares are now held by UK investors.
• There wasn't much in the museum to hold my attention.
• I hope that this sunny weather holds until the end of the week.
• The Boeing 747 can hold 416 passengers in a typical three-class layout.

• support
• keep
• possessed
• lasts
• stop
• contain
• wait
• believed