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Sometimes a slow accumulation of small problems can become overwhelming.

WORDS TO UNDERSTAND

ambivalent: being “of two minds”; undecided or uncertain contagion: the spread of disease from one person to another cumulative: the overall effect created when many things are added together impulsive: something spur-of-the-moment, without much thought or planning profound: describes something deep-seated and overwhelming time-limited: describes something that lasts a set amount of time, with a beginning and end vector: an organism that transmits a disease (for example, a tick is a vector for Lyme disease)

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