stark

stark    [stahrk]

adjective.  complete and extreme

India's extreme weather that has killed more than 18,000 people serves as a stark reminder of how vulnerable the human body is to severe heat. Human beings aren't built to spend long periods of time in temperatures that exceed the body's own temperature of about 98.6 degrees.  

For all its growing nuclear capability, North Korea is suffering economically, in stark contrast to its southern neighbor. 

Although Brazil has a mature finance sector and progress has made in the last two decades, stark inequality remains. 

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