Related by context. Frequent words. (Click for all words.) 59 festering 48 body politic 47 fester 42 intractable 41 scar 39 factionalism 39 stain 38 disunity 38 scourge 38 quagmire 38 imbroglio 37 disgrace 37 thorn 37 strife 37 divisiveness 37 pariah 37 Racism 37 Band Aid 37 irritant 37 simmering 37 bitterly divided 36 divisive 36 ills 35 plaguing 35 underdevelopment 35 Achilles heel 35 flashpoint 35 ugliness 35 malaise 35 inflamed 35 vexed 34 cesspool 34 resentments 34 morass 34 fissures 34 unresolved 34 appendage 34 problem 34 stinking 34 anachronism 34 bedeviled 34 symptomatic 33 scars 33 underclass 33 rifts 33 bane 33 endemic 33 shameful 33 thorny issue 33 misery 33 mire 33 scarred 33 tribalism 32 conflict 32 unaddressed 32 tentacles 32 vestige 32 sores 32 intolerable 32 polity 32 Troubles 32 albatross 32 racial divide 32 seething 32 bitterness 32 saga 32 salve 32 muck 32 vexing 32 backwater 32 schism 32 acrimony 32 inequity 32 internal strife 32 injustice 32 deeply entrenched 32 fiasco 32 sideshow 32 moribund 32 infighting 31 travesty 31 shambles 31 abscess 31 ails 31 malady 31 warts 31 mess 31 forgotten 31 afflicting 31 bloodletting 31 paradoxes 31 melting pot 31 boils 31 plague 31 psyche 31 dustbin 31 conundrum 31 dysfunctional 31 continues unabated 31 shamefully 31 chasm