"A Civil Action"

Vocabulary Guide

The following words are used in the movie.

Cancer

Cause and effect

Cleanup

Cluster

Contamination

Engineering study

Environmental Protection Agency

Groundwater

Leukemia

Love Canal

Municipal well

Perchloroethylene (PCE)

Pollution

Solvent

Superfund

Tetrachloroethylene

Toxic waste

Trichloroethylene (TCE)