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Nouns
1. (n.) behemoth, colossus, giant, goliath, monster;
  - someone or something that is abnormally large and powerful;

2. (n.) behemoth, colossus, giant, heavyweight, titan;
  - a person of exceptional importance and reputation;

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Nouns
1. (n.) ease, relaxation, repose, rest;
  - freedom from activity (work or strain or responsibility);
  - “took his repose by the swimming pool”;

2. (n.) ataraxis, heartsease, peace, peace of mind, peacefulness, repose, serenity;
  - the absence of mental stress or anxiety;

3. (n.) placidity, quiet, repose, serenity, tranquility, tranquillity;
  - a disposition free from stress or emotion;

Verbs
1. (verb) repose;
  - put or confide something in a person or thing;
  - “These philosophers reposed the law in the people”;

2. (verb) repose, reside, rest;
  - be inherent or innate in;

3. (verb) repose;
  - lie when dead;
  - “Mao reposes in his mausoleum”;

4. (verb) recline, recumb, repose;
  - lean in a comfortable resting position;
  - “He was reposing on the couch”;

5. (verb) lay, put down, repose;
  - put in a horizontal position;
  - “lay the books on the table”; “lay the patient carefully onto the bed”;

6. (verb) repose;
  - to put something (eg trust) in something;
  - “The nation reposed its confidence in the King”;

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Nouns
1. (n.) myriad;
  - a large indefinite number;
  - “he faced a myriad of details”;

2. (n.) 10000, myriad, ten thousand;
  - the cardinal number that is the product of ten and one thousand;

Adjectives
1. (adj.) countless, infinite, innumerable, innumerous, multitudinous, myriad, numberless, uncounted, unnumberable, unnumbered, unnumerable;
  - too numerous to be counted;
  - “incalculable riches”; “countless hours”; “an infinite number of reasons”; “innumerable difficulties”; “the multitudinous seas”; “myriad stars”; “untold thousands”;

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Verbs
1. (verb) aby, abye, atone, expiate;
  - make amends for;
  - “expiate one’s sins”;

2. (verb) atone, repent;
  - turn away from sin or do penitence;

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Adjectives
1. (adj.) labyrinthine;
  - relating to or affecting or originating in the inner ear;
  - “labyrinthine deafness”;

2. (adj.) labyrinthian, labyrinthine, mazy;
  - resembling a labyrinth in form or complexity;
  - “a labyrinthine network of tortuous footpaths”;

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Adjectives
1. (adj.) myopic, nearsighted, shortsighted;
  - unable to see distant objects clearly;

2. (adj.) myopic, short, shortsighted, unforesightful;
  - lacking foresight or scope;
  - “a short view of the problem”; “shortsighted policies”; “shortsighted critics derided the plan”; “myopic thinking”;

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Nouns
1. (n.) calamity, cataclysm, catastrophe, disaster, tragedy;
  - an event resulting in great loss and misfortune;
  - “the whole city was affected by the irremediable calamity”; “the earthquake was a disaster”;

2. (n.) tragedy;
  - drama in which the protagonist is overcome by some superior force or circumstance; excites terror or pity;

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Nouns
1. (n.) ambage, circumlocution, periphrasis;
  - a style that involves indirect ways of expressing things;

2. (n.) circumlocution, indirect expression;
  - an indirect way of expressing something;

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Nouns
1. (n.) ultimate;
  - the finest or most superior quality of its kind;
  - “the ultimate in luxury”;

Adjectives
1. (adj.) ultimate;
  - furthest or highest in degree or order; utmost or extreme;
  - “the ultimate achievement”; “the ultimate question”; “man’s ultimate destiny”; “the ultimate insult”; “one’s ultimate goal in life”;

2. (adj.) ultimate;
  - being the last or concluding element of a series;
  - “the ultimate sonata of that opus”; “a distinction between the verb and noun senses of `conflict’ is that in the verb the stress is on the ultimate (or last) syllable”;

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Nouns
1. (n.) sybarite, voluptuary;
  - a person addicted to luxury and pleasures of the senses;

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