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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