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[ musical flourish ]

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And here's your Shmoop du jour, brought to you by infections.

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Share with your friends.

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Or not. Eh, probably not. [A girl carries bacteria and frightens the boy]

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Yeah, don't do that.

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All right, check out the following sentence.

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MRSA is a tenacious infection that is very hard to treat. [Information about MSRA is displayed]

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All right, the word "tenacious"

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most nearly means... what? [Question appears on screen]

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[ mumbles ] [Question with options is displayed on the screen]

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All right.

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Well, infections are no fun,

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especially when they cause zombie outbreaks. [A mob of zombies chases a girl]

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MRSA's not quite zombie-level bad, but it's still not good.

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It's a tough bacterial infection that's difficult to treat with antibiotics.

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The only context clue we have here [Doctor turns into zombie and chases the girl]

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if we don't know the definition of tenacious,

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is that MRSA's hard to treat.

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A - a deadly infection

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could certainly be hard to treat, - like, just ask

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Mr. Ebola there -

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but that's not the definition we're looking for. [An Ebola appears on the screen]

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B - complicated

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isn't the definition, either. Although it's true that nobody likes

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a complicated bacteria. [Male Ebola departs from female Ebola]

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And the mere fact that MRSA has a name

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implies it's not unidentifiable.

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We're not dealing with some masked bacteria that no one knows of.

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Thank goodness, 'cause that sounds terrifying. [A bacteria with mask appears on screen]

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But a persistent bacteria is certainly hard to fight.

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That little bugger just keeps coming back. [A doctor tries to kill Ebola, but it multiplies]

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So option D - persistent is the correct answer.

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Isn't learning new vocabulary just infectious?

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We love it around here at Shmoop. [A girl carries bacteria and frightens the boy]

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