TRS5 vocab sub8

• His face is covered with scar tissue where he was badly burned.
• I find that yoga improves my powers of concentration.
• There’s a heavy concentration of poor and elderly in the district.
• Even Chris, the very model of calmness (= someone who is usually extremely calm), was angered by having to work such long hours.
• Vegetable prices fluctuate according to the season.
• Last year manufacturing output fell by 14 percent.
• My view was blocked by a tall man in front of me.
• She died after taking a massive overdose of drugs.
• It's the sheer volume of traffic in the city that is causing the problems.
• Many passengers slept in the airport overnight with emergency thermal blankets.
• The air in the balloon expands when heated.
• I accelerated to overtake the bus.
• They use special chemicals to accelerate the growth of crops.
• Allow the meat to thaw completely before cooking it.
• The recent famine in these parts has caused the displacement of tens of thousands of people.
• The extinction of the dinosaurs occurred millions of years ago.
• Education should be relevant to the child's needs.
• a new National Biological Survey to protect species' habitat and biodiversity.
• He suddenly felt an intense pain in his back.
• If there's no roof then the house is uninhabitable.
• We need to act now to avoid a recession and the consequential damage that would follow.
• Humans, dogs, elephants, and dolphins are all mammals, but birds, fish, and crocodiles are not.
• Home cooking seems to be on the/in decline (= not so many people are doing it).
• So far the drug is thought not to have any adverse effects.
• The elevator was at capacity and could not take any more passengers.
• Ice cover prevents evaporation of water from the lake surface.
• As a boy, he was aware of the evaporation of his grandfather's life savings.
• This attack will exacerbate the already tense relations between the two communities.
• The grass had been saturated by overnight rain.
• There are fears that the incident may be a trigger for more violence in the capital.
• It's not clear who actually pulled the trigger.
• Some people find that certain foods trigger their headaches.
• Tourists are more vulnerable to attack, because they do not know which areas of the city to avoid.