2 Words to use with pollution

Can it be that the book of Ecclesiastes is the mere record of the miserable experiences of an embittered and disappointed sensualist, or is it the profound and searching exposition of the vanities of this world as they appear to a lofty searcher after truth and God, measured by the realities of a future and endless life, which the soul emancipated from pollution pants and aspires after with all the intensity of a renovated nature?

There is many a woman who goes to a life of degradation and pollution shedding burning tears over her 4-cent shirts.

2 Words to use with  pollution