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56 entries under essential topic. ×
| prerequisite(adjective, important, significant, critical) | |
| binding(adjective, significant, basic, vital) | |
| bottom-line(adjective, important, significant, critical) | |
| cardinal(adjective, important, significant, capital) | |
| chief(adjective, important, significant, capital) | |
| coal-and-ice(important, critical, basic, fundamental) | |
| constitutive(important, capital, critical, basic) | |
| de rigueur(expression, adjective, idiom, significant) | |
| decisive(adjective, important, significant, critical) | |
| exigent(adjective, significant, basic, vital) | |
| expedient(adjective, significant, basic, vital) | |
| heavy(important, critical, basic, fundamental) | |
| incumbent on(expression, adjective, significant, basic) | |
| key(important, critical, basic, fundamental) | |
| life-or-death(adjective, important, critical, basic) | |
| meaningful(important, critical, fundamental, decisive) | |
| meat-and-potatoes(important, critical, basic, fundamental) | |
| momentous(adjective, significant, basic, vital) | |
| name(important, critical, basic, fundamental) | |
| name-of-the-game(important, critical, basic, fundamental) |
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