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Large quantities or amounts

mass

noun

a large quantity or number

quantity

noun

a large amount of something

abundance

noun

a very large quantity of something

pile

noun

a large amount of something

a lot/lots

a large number, amount, or quantity

all manner of something

a great variety of people or things

quite a few

a fairly large number of people or things

a good/great deal of something

a large amount or quantity of something

much

adverb, determiner, pronoun

a large amount of something

mountain

noun

a large pile or amount of something

vocal fry

a speech habit in which a speaker lowers their voice at the end of a sentence

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dray

a type of cart pulled by a horse and used in the past for carrying barrels of beer

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conflict mineral

a mineral which is mined in a place where there is armed conflict, and sold to help pay for weapons

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