And the Waters Turned to Blood Ch 18-21 Key Terms

1. gripe (p.264) verb: to complain naggingly or constantly; grumble
-About the only thing likely to get the state to clean up our waters is for a few tourists to go back home with fevers and sores and then gripe to the national news media.
2. piecemeal (p.267) adverb: into pieces or fragments
-She made an effort to be polite...the funding would be piecemeal, so that the resultant research would be effectively diluted.
3. postmortem (p.271) adjective: of or pertaining to examination of the body after death
-Donald Schmechel--would conduct postmortem examinations of the rat tissues.
4. outflank (p.274) verb: to outmaneuver or bypass
 -most said that she appeared outflanked and if she wanted to maintain a stake in the research, she would accept the funding.
5. collusion (p.276) noun: a secret agreement, especially for fraudulent or treacherous purposes; conspiracy
-There were moments when she suspected that from the beginning he must have been in collusion with her foes...with a state a state agency that would continue to provide Sea Grant with money.
6. inundate (p.288) verb: to flood; to overwhelm
She even took one startling call from a pharmacist, who had recently been inundated with people...and a range of symptoms associated with Pfiesteria.
7. carcinoma (p.290) noun: a malignant and invasive epithelial tumor that spreads by metastasis and often recurs after excision; cancer
- With a host of other potential problems lying in wait...read carcinoma--all of this explained why it was so difficult to come up with a clear set of clinical symptoms that could be blamed on Pfiesteria.
8. atrophy (p.291) noun: a wasting away of the body or of an organ or part, as from defective nutrition or nerve damage
-The osteopath went on to say that when he first examined David Jones...the doctor concluded, His cortex must be atrophied. 
9. wince (p.293) verb: to draw back or tense the body, as from pain or from a blow; flinch
-She'd winced, recognized the fractured voice pattern.
10. delve (p.300) verb: to search deeply and laboriously
-And when one of these comes along, officials typically try to explain it away with what is known rather than delve into what it might be.
11. intramural (p.301) adjective: involving only students at the same school or college
-He had gone on to say, "If you like I can shop it around intramurally at EPA or NIEHS.
12. vendetta (p.306) noun: any prolonged and bitter feud, rivalry, or contention
-It is from these people that I learned the tensions between Dr. Greg Smith and JoAnn Burkholder erupted into a vendetta.
13. slipshod (p.308) adjective: careless, untidy, or slovenly
-It was slipshod work, and it would come back to haunt the health department.
14. exonerate (p.313) verb: to clear, as of an accusation
-The written documentation--the paper trail that would either have exonerated  Copeland or convicted him--was nonexistent.
15. brevity (p.315) noun: shortness of time or duration; briefness
-But when she read the Memorandum of Understanding, she was appalled by its vagueness and brevity.
16. boilerplate (p.315) noun: phrases or units of text used repeatedly, as in correspondence produced by word-processing system
-She had expected a thick detailed document, not two pages, most of it boilerplate, with only six lines that defined the project criterion.