Sentence:  Somehow , the pictures and stories of Soviet T-34 tanks on Cuban beaches and Russian Mig jet fighters strafing rebel troops has brought home to all of us the <WSD>stark</WSD> , blunt truth of what it means to have a Russian military base 90 miles away from home . 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  without qualification; used informally as (often pejorative) intensifiers