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How to spell vast
Vast is spelled V-A-S-T.
What it means: Unusually great in size or amount.
In a sentence: The ocean is a vast place full of mysterious creatures.
Same family: vastly, vastness, huge, immense, enormous. If you can spell one, the shared part carries to the others.
Where it comes from: “Vast” comes from Latin “vastus,” meaning empty, huge, or desolate. It originally suggested a great, often empty space, which is why we still use it to talk about huge oceans, skies, and even the ‘vast void’ of space.
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