plethora

PLETH-er-uhnoun

Meaning too many; a great excess

Memory hook PLETH-ora: PLENTY and then MORE-a. Theo asked for one balloon and got sixty, so many that his toes leave the ground. Sixty is a plethora of balloons.

The new phone came with a plethora of settings that no one ever used.

In context Faced with a plethora of choices, forty kinds of cereal lining one long aisle, Grandpa simply gave up and went home with oatmeal.

Similar excess, glut, surplus, overabundance

Opposite dearth, shortage, paucity

From Greek plethore, “fullness,” from plethein, “to be full.”

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