Sentence:  For one thing , although considerable numbers of men have been trained , bureaucracies are still deficient in many respects ; even the famed Indian Civil Service is not fully adequate to the <WSD>tremendous</WSD> range of tasks it has undertaken . 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  extraordinarily large in size or extent or amount or power or degree; that a whole civilization should be dependent on technology"- Walter Lippman