GMAT sentence correction section will test you against a number of different English language issues. One of them is what is called "idiomatic expressions", also labeled in some textbooks as "Idioms" (do not confuse with what in general English is understood by an "idiom" (ex: "once in a blue moon) GMAT sees it as the proper combination of verbs/adjectives/nouns + preposition(s)

1. Check usage by searching
these idiomatic
expresions in the
following sites:
WordNet 3.0
http://wordnet.princeton.edu
/
Oxford Collocations Dictionary
http://llohe­ocd.appspot.com/
Links provided by Nova
Language Consultants &
accessed Oct 2010; list
shared by a Nova Student
Corpus of Contemporary
American English (click on
enter)
http://wordnet.princeton.edu
/
Just the word
http://193.133.140.102/justTheWord
able to based on date from hypothesize that mistake for prejudiced against [the] same as
ability to because of deal with in contrast to model after permit to see as
accede to believe to be debate over in danger of more than persuade to send to
according to between [a] and [b] decide to / against in order to move away from predisposed to sense of so…that
account for call for defend against in violation of meet with pressure to spend on
accuse of craving for define as inclined to meet prevent from subject to
acquaint with choice of delighted by infected with [a] native of prized by substitute [a] for [b]
agree with choose from demonstrate that instead of native to prohibit from suffer from
allow for choose to depend on introduce to neither…nor protect against superior to
amount to claim to depict as isolate from not [a] but [b] provide with supplant by
appear to collaborate with descend from intent to not only…but also preferable to suspicious of
apply to conclude that different from in search of not so much…as prior to sympathy for
argue over consequence of difficult to inside necessity of partake of sympathize with
as __ as consider distinguish [a] from [b] just as…so too necessity for practice for separate from
associate with consistent with draw on less than name practice to target at
assure that continue to due to likely to on account of practice of think of (someone or something) as
at a disadvantage contrast with desirous of liken to opportunity for question whether threaten to
attempt to contribute to divergent from opportunity to range from [a] to [b] train to
attend to convert to decide on opposed to rather than transit to
attention to cost to/of [in an] effort to opposite of regard as try to
attest to credit with either…or ought to replace with type of
attribute to comply with enamored with require to tamper with
available to conform to encourage to required of tie to
afflicted with consider to be estimate to be [the] responsibility to try to
argue with composed of expose to responsible for tend
averse to compare with/to extend to result from tend to
ask of consist in extent of result in use as
agree to consist with equal rule that [the] use of
angry at consist of equal to result of view as
correspond to fear that vote for
correspond with fluctuations in visit
forbid to willing to
force to worry about
frequency of
from [a] to [b]
fail in
GMAT PARTIAL WORD LIST OF IDIOMATIC EXPRESSIONS