Sentence:  The country's first black president, and its first president to reach adulthood after the Vietnam War and Watergate, Mr. Obama seemed like a digital-age leader who could at last dislodge the stalemate between those who clung to the government of the Great Society, on the one hand, and those who disdained the <WSD>very</WSD> idea of government, on the other. 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  True, real, actual.