Collocations for prepare - verb

adequately, properly
fully
carefully, meticulously, painstakingly
The lectures were carefully prepared.

busily, hastily, quickly
I was busily preparing a salad for the evening meal.

lovingly
the chicken casserole I had so lovingly prepared for her

mentally
How do you go about mentally preparing yourself for a project?

help (sb), help (sb) to
need to
Penn needs to prepare for a medical school interview.

fail to
He had failed to prepare adequately for the task before him.

be easy to, be quick to, be simple to
a meal that is very quick and easy to prepare

be designed to
The course is designed to prepare graduates for management careers.

according to
Just prepare according to package directions.

for
We all set about preparing for the party.

prepare for the worst
The family are preparing for the worst.

time to prepare (sth)
I haven't had time to prepare my arguments properly.

Prepare is used with these nouns as the object:
ambush, banquet, bath, bill, breakdown, brief, case, casserole, celery, constitution, contract, copy, dish, dissertation, document, draft, feast, file, fish, food, forecast, fruit, grill, groundwork, ingredient, lecture, lesson, lunch, manuscript, memo, memorandum, paper, paperwork, plan, questionnaire, résumé, recipe, remedy, report, salad, sauce, schedule, scheme, script, site, snack, soup, statement, statistics, student, summary, syringe, valuation, way