refer to

1

• refer to
• The act Im referring to is the choice you make
  every time you sit down to a meal. (line 4)
• In her autobiography she occasionally refers to
  her unhappy childhood.
• He always refers to the house as his
  "refuge".The new salary scale only refers to
  company managers.

2

• unparalleled
• Vegetarian food sales are showing unparalleled
  growth. (line 6)
• They enjoyed success on a scale unparalleled by
  any previous pop group.
• The country has an unparalleled record of solid
  growth.
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3

• boost
• This wrong fuel has helped boost the cost of
  degenerative disease in Canada to an estimated
  400 billion a year (line 21)
• verb
• The theatre managed to boost its audiences by
  cutting ticket prices.
• Share prices were boosted by the news reports.
• I tried to boost his ego.

4

• nounThe lowering of interest rates will give a
  much-needed boost to the economy.
• Passing my driving test was such a boost to my
  confidence.

5

• devoid of
• Animal foods have serious nutritional drawbacks
  They are devoid of fiber, contain far too much
  saturated fat and cholesterol (line 24)
• Their apartment is devoid of all comforts.
• He seems to be devoid of compassion.

6

• infect
• According to the Canadian Food Inspection Agency,
  six out of ten chickens are infected with
  salmonella. (line 30)
• The ward was full of children infected with TB.
• All the tomato plants are infected with a
  virus.Her optimism seemed to infect all those
  around her.

7

• A computer virus may lurk unseen in a computer's
  memory, calling up and infecting each of the
  machine's data files in turn.

8

• bow
• Unfortunately, they (the governments) have
  bowed to pressure from powerful lobby groups such
  as the Beef Information Center . (line 32)
• Eventually the government was forced to bow to
  public pressure and reform the tax.

9

• retrieve
• According to documents retrieved through the
  Freedom of Information Act, these groups forced
  changes to Canadas latest food guide before it
  was released in 1993. (line 35)
• We taught our dog to retrieve a ball.
• Computers are used to store and retrieve
  information efficiently.

10

• intake
• Even a minor reduction in recommended intakes of
  animal protein could cost these industries
  billions of dollars a year. (line 38)
• It says on the packet that four slices of this
  bread contains one half of your recommended daily
  intake of fiber.

11

• Heighten
• Using so much land heightens topsoil loss (line
  53)
• to increase or make something increase,
  especially an emotion or effect
• The strong police presence only heightened the
  tension among the crowd.
• As the excitement heightened, the audience began
  stamping their feet. 

12

• contaminate
• 43 percent of tested wells were contaminated with
  agricultural run-off (line 67)
• Much of the coast has been contaminated by
  nuclear waste.
• The food which had been contaminated was
  destroyed.

13

• lay/bring/press charges against
• Earlier this month, charges were laid against a
  large Alberta feedlot operator for dumping 30
  million litres of cattle manure into the Bow
  River (line 68)

14

• noun
• The 19-year-old will be appearing in court on
  Thursday where she will face criminal charges.
• He has been arrested on a charge of murder.
• The police brought a charge of theft against
  him.
• The police have had to drop ( stop) charges
  against her because they couldn't find any
  evidence.

15

• verb
• She's been charged with murder.
• He is charged with murdering her friend.

16

• utter
• I looked on in utter shock as a cow missed the
  stun gun and was hoisted fully conscious upside
  down by its hind leg and cut to pieces (line 87)
• utter confusion/misery/chaos
• utter nonsense/rubbish
• The meeting was a complete and utter waste of
  time.

17

• come second to
• animal welfare comes second to profit. (line
  93)
• For Mike, love comes second to money.