pervasive
per-VAY-sivadjMeaning spreading through every part of something
Memory hook per-VASE-ive: VASES all THROUGH the house. Granny Mae loves flowers so much that there are vases on every table, shelf and windowsill in her house. Flowers are pervasive there.
The pervasive smell of popcorn drifted through every corner of the theater.
In context Worry about the coming storm was pervasive; it showed in the empty store shelves, the boarded-up windows and the anxious faces on every street.
Similar widespread, all-over, rife, inescapable
Opposite limited, contained, rare
From Latin pervadere, “to go through”: per (through) + vadere (to go).