Glossary.

• PLUM: the sweet, fleshy, red or purple fruit of any of several trees of the rose family.
• FORT: a location occupied by troops and surrounded by defensive works.
• DISEASE: illness, sickness.
• SPARSELY: thinly scattered or distributed; not thick or dense.
• ALLEGEDLY: reportedly; supposedly.
• DEFORMITY: an improperly formed part of the body.
• SABOTEUR: a person who commits or practices sabotage.
• FLAW: a feature that causes an imperfection in something; defect; blemish.
• CONSPIRACY: a combination of persons for a secret, unlawful, or evil purpose.
• MUTATION: sudden departure or change from the parent type, seen in offspring in one or more characteristics that have been inherited, caused by a change in a gene or a chromosome.
• MASSIVE: lrage in amount or degree.
• SUCEED: to end according to one's desire.
• WHEREBY: by what or which; under the terms of which.
• SUSPICION: imagination that something is true, or is likely to be true; a notion.
• HEARSAY: information received from another that is not yet proved; rumor.