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awesome

 adjective
     
awe‧some
1 extremely impressive, serious, or difficult so that you feel great respect, worry, or fear:
an awesome responsibility
the awesome sweep of the scenery
2 especially American English informal very good:
Their last concert was really awesome.
—awesomely adverb
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