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How to sign: serving as an essential component
"a cardinal rule"; "the central cause of the problem"; "an example that was fundamental to the argument"; "computers are fundamental to modern industrial structure";
Similiar / Same: cardinal, central, fundamental, key
How to sign: having existed from the beginning; in an earliest or original stage or state
"aboriginal forests"; "primal eras before the appearance of life on earth"; "the forest primeval"; "primordial matter"; "primordial forms of life";
Similiar / Same: primeval, primaeval, primordial, aboriginal
