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Use context clues to determine the meaning of colossal as it is used in "The Cask of Amontillado." Write your definition here, and explain which clues helped you arrive at it.

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At the most remote end of the crypt there appeared another less spacious. Its walls had been lined with human remains, piled to the vault overhead, in the fashion of the great catacombs of Paris. Three sides of this interior crypt were still ornamented in this manner. From the fourth side the bones had been thrown down, and lay promiscuously upon the earth, forming at one point a mound of some size.

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