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