Words

Cards (36)

  • Pervasive

    Spread throughout and widely prevalent
  • Paramount
    Of utmost importance or supreme
  • Impediment
    An obstacle or hindrance that prevents progress
  • Exacerbate
    To make a problem, situation, or feeling worse
  • Mitigate
    To make less severe, serious, or painful
  • Imperative
    Of vital importance; crucial
  • Intrinsically
    In an essential or natural way
  • Proliferation
    Rapid increase or spread
  • Inherent
    Existing in something as a permanent, essential, or characteristic attribute
  • Substantiate
    To provide evidence to support or prove the truth of something
  • Incontrovertible
    Not able to be denied or disputed
  • Dichotomy
    A division or contrast between two things that are represented as being opposed or entirely different
  • Proponent
    A person who advocates a theory, proposal, or course of action
  • Antithetical
    Directly opposed or contrasted; mutually incompatible
  • Seditious
    Inciting or causing people to rebel against the authority of a state or sovereign
  • Inciting
    Causing people to do an action
  • Contentious
    Causing or likely to cause an argument; controversial
  • Empirical
    Based on observation or experience rather than theory or pure logic
  • Inevitably
    Certain to happen; unavoidable
  • Notwithstanding
    In spite of; despite
  • Pragmatic
    Dealing with things sensibly and realistically based on practical considerations
  • Arbitrary
    Based on random choice or personal whim, rather than any reason or system
  • Conundrum
    A confusing and difficult problem or question
  • Dogmatic
    Inclined to lay down principles as incontrovertibly true
  • Egregious
    Outstandingly bad; shocking
  • Fallacy
    A mistaken belief, especially one based on unsound arguments
  • Inextricably
    In a way that is impossible to disentangle or separate
  • Nuance
    A subtle difference in or shade of meaning, expression, or sound
  • Ostensible
    Stated or appearing to be true, but not necessarily so
  • Perplexing
    Completely baffling; very puzzling
  • Quantifiable
    Able to be measured or counted
  • Redundant
    Not or no longer needed or useful; superfluous
  • Specious
    Superficially plausible, but actually wrong
  • Tenuous
    Very weak or slight
  • Untenable
    Not able to be maintained or defended against attack or objection
  • Vested
    Secured in the possession of or assigned to a person