Henrietta Lacks Vocab #2

Tendency to a condition or quality, usually based on the combined effect of genetic and environmental factors

• Discretion

• Predisposition

• Deduce

• Incentive

(of a tumor) cancerous; characterized by uncontrolled growth

• Severed

• Exploited

• Malignant

• Peril

Something that is likely to cause injury, pain, harm, or loss

• Peril

• Exhumed

• Deleterious

• Pristine

My flowers _____ after they get sunlight and some water.

Clean and fresh as if new; spotless

• Receptive

• Incentive

• Abatement

• Pristine

They embraced one another as the doctor told her that her tumor was not _________.

Termination

• Abatement

• Deduce

• Exploited

• Tactics

Actions for accomplishing a goal

• Discretion

• Pristine

• Tactics

• Exhumed

His ________ were not ordinary, but they worked for him.

Used unfairly for someone else's interests

• Severed

• Abatement

• Exploited

• Incentive