Text Completion doubt

---------- bureaucracy has made it all but impossible to secure government grants, paperwork endlessly shuffled from one department to the next.
a) Byzantine
b) Bogus
c) Banal
d) Boisterous
e) Baroque

Here, Byzantine is the answer. Why Baroque is not the answer? It seems to me that Byzantine and Baroque have the same meaning.

Source ?

Byzantine and Baroque are not the same.

It is !