She to trust herself. Word by word, she broke down each exercise. Surprisingly, most answers came to her naturally. The only one she got wrong was a tricky idiom: “to be on thin ice ” – which, she realised, was exactly where she’d been.

Lena was panic. Her Focus 4 exam was in three hours, and she had come across a set of phrasal verbs she simply couldn’t figure out . She needed the Word Store answer key – but her careless roommate had taken it by mistake .

Lena whispered, trying to brush off the anxiety. She turned to her laptop, but the Wi-Fi was intermittent . Just then, her friend Marco showed up with a coffee.

“You look ,” he said. “What’s the matter ?”

Marco that memorising answers wasn’t the same as understanding. “Give it a shot without the key,” he insisted .

Lena – a nervous reaction. “I’m going to fail unless I go over collocations for ‘make’ and ‘do’.”

I’ve woven typical B2/C1 level vocabulary from Word Store units into a coherent narrative. The Last Answer Key