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central
Of or having to do with a single source that controls all activity in an organization or system
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  1. Of or having to do with a single source that controls all activity in an organization or system
  2. Having dominant or controlling power or influence:
  3. Of or constituting a single source controlling all components of a system:
essential
(Medicine) Of, relating to, or being a condition or a disease whose cause is unknown:
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  1. (Medicine) Of, relating to, or being a condition or a disease whose cause is unknown:
  2. Fundamentally important or necessary:
  3. (Biochemistry) Being a substance that is required for normal functioning but cannot be synthesized by the body and therefore must be included in the diet:
primary
Of or relating to primary schools.
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  1. Of or relating to primary schools.
  2. Characterized by groups or radicals that are attached to the end carbon atom of a chain, i.e., to a CH2 group (Ex.: primary alcohols, CH2OH; primary amines, CH2NH2)
  3. (Geol.) Formed directly by sedimentation, solidification, or precipitation and not subsequently altered
elementary
Of or having to do with the formal instruction of children in basic subjects
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  1. Of or having to do with the formal instruction of children in basic subjects
  2. Of or relating to an elementary school or elementary education:
  3. Of, relating to, or involving the fundamental or simplest aspects of a subject:
elemental
Of such character as to resemble a force of nature in power or effect:
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  1. Of such character as to resemble a force of nature in power or effect:
  2. Being a chemical element in uncombined form
  3. Fundamental or essential; basic.
elementary
Of first principles, rudiments, or fundamentals; introductory; basic; simple
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  1. Of first principles, rudiments, or fundamentals; introductory; basic; simple
  2. Of or having to do with the formal instruction of children in basic subjects
  3. Of, relating to, or involving the fundamental or simplest aspects of a subject:
essential
Fundamentally important or necessary:
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  1. Fundamentally important or necessary:
  2. (Medicine) Of, relating to, or being a condition or a disease whose cause is unknown:
  3. (Biochemistry) Being a substance that is required for normal functioning but cannot be synthesized by the body and therefore must be included in the diet:
fundamental
Of or forming a foundation or basis; basic; essential
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  1. Of or forming a foundation or basis; basic; essential
  2. Forming or serving as an essential component of a system or structure; central:
  3. Of or relating to the foundation or base; elementary:
primitive
Regarded as having changed little in evolutionary history. Not in scientific use:
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  1. Regarded as having changed little in evolutionary history. Not in scientific use:
  2. Not resulting from conscious thought or deliberation; unconscious or instinctual:
  3. Characterized by simplicity or crudity; unsophisticated:
ultimate
Utmost; extreme:
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  1. Utmost; extreme:
  2. Representing or exhibiting the greatest possible development or sophistication:
  3. Fundamental; elemental:
underlying
Basic or fundamental
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  1. Basic or fundamental
  2. Taking precedence; prior:
  3. Basic; fundamental:
constitutional
Of, in, authorized by, subject to, dependent on, dealing with, or in accordance with the constitution of a nation, state, or society
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  1. Of, in, authorized by, subject to, dependent on, dealing with, or in accordance with the constitution of a nation, state, or society
  2. Belonging to, or inherent in, the constitution, or in the structure of body or mind.
  3. Of or relating to a constitution:
constitutive
That forms a constituent part of something else
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  1. That forms a constituent part of something else
  2. That makes something what it is; essential
  3. Making a thing what it is; essential.
essential
(Medicine) Of, relating to, or being a condition or a disease whose cause is unknown:
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  1. (Medicine) Of, relating to, or being a condition or a disease whose cause is unknown:
  2. (Biochemistry) Being a substance that is required for normal functioning but cannot be synthesized by the body and therefore must be included in the diet:
  3. Fundamentally important or necessary:
fundamental
Of or forming a foundation or basis; basic; essential
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  1. Of or forming a foundation or basis; basic; essential
  2. (Physics) Designating or of a fundamental
  3. Forming or serving as an essential component of a system or structure; central:
integral
Whole or complete
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  1. Whole or complete
  2. Made up of parts forming a whole
  3. Possessing everything essential; entire.
vital
Concerned with or recording data pertinent to lives:
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  1. Concerned with or recording data pertinent to lives:
  2. Necessary to the continuation of life; life-sustaining:
  3. Extremely important; essential:
basal
(Bot.) Growing from the base of a stem
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  1. (Bot.) Growing from the base of a stem
  2. Of primary importance; basic.
  3. (--- Botany) Located at or near the base of a plant stem, or at the base of any other plant part:
beginning
(Informal) Of or relating to the first portion of some extended thing.
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  1. (Informal) Of or relating to the first portion of some extended thing.
elementary
Of, relating to, or involving the fundamental or simplest aspects of a subject:
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  1. Of, relating to, or involving the fundamental or simplest aspects of a subject:
  2. Of or relating to an elementary school or elementary education:
  3. Of first principles, rudiments, or fundamentals; introductory; basic; simple
rudimentary
Basic; minimal; with less than, or only the minimum, necessary.
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  1. Basic; minimal; with less than, or only the minimum, necessary.
  2. Elementary
  3. Being in an early stage of development or having a simple form:
basal
Of, relating to, located at, or forming a base.
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  1. Of, relating to, located at, or forming a base.
  2. Of primary importance; basic.
  3. Being the base or basis; basic; fundamental
fundamental
Of or relating to the foundation or base; elementary:
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  1. Of or relating to the foundation or base; elementary:
  2. Of or relating to the lowest possible frequency or the lowest frequency component of a vibrating element, system, periodic wave, or quantity:
  3. On which others are based; primary; original
original
Showing a marked departure from previous practice; new:
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  1. Showing a marked departure from previous practice; new:
  2. Not derived from something else; fresh and unusual:
  3. Preceding all others in time; first:
primary
(Linguis.) Having as its fundamental form a base or other element that cannot be broken down
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  1. (Linguis.) Having as its fundamental form a base or other element that cannot be broken down
  2. (Botany) Of, relating to, or derived from a primary meristem.
  3. Not derived from anything else; basic or original:
radical
(Linguistics) Of or being a root:
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  1. (Linguistics) Of or being a root:
  2. (Medicine) Relating to or being surgery that is extreme or drastic in an effort to eradicate all existing or potential disease:
  3. Favoring fundamental or extreme change; specif., favoring basic change in the social or economic structure
underlying
Basic or fundamental
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  1. Basic or fundamental
  2. Taking precedence; prior:
  3. Present but not readily noticeable:
element
The natural or suitable environment, situation, etc. for a person or thing
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  1. The natural or suitable environment, situation, etc. for a person or thing
  2. A distinct group within a larger community:
  3. A fundamental, essential, or irreducible constituent of a composite entity.
essential
Something necessary or fundamental; indispensable, inherent, or basic feature or principle
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  1. Something necessary or fundamental; indispensable, inherent, or basic feature or principle
fundamental
(Physics) The lowest frequency at which a system, as an air column or stretched string, will freely vibrate
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  1. (Physics) The lowest frequency at which a system, as an air column or stretched string, will freely vibrate
  2. The prime or main tone of a harmonic series
  3. Something that is an essential or necessary part of a system or object.
rudiment
Something in an incipient or undeveloped form:
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  1. Something in an incipient or undeveloped form:
  2. A first principle, element, or fundamental, as of a subject to be learned
  3. A fundamental element, principle, or skill, as of a field of learning:
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  • I don't want to deny you such a basic need.

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  • Alex and Jonathan wanted to help decorate, but there were some basic things that could be done.

  • Wouldn't you want at least basic details?

  • It was his view that "the attainment of human rights in the fullest sense cannot be achieved so long as hundreds of millions of poverty-stricken people lack the basic necessities for life."

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