Sentence:  Even Joan Sutherland may not have anticipated the <WSD>tremendous</WSD> reception she received from the Metropolitan Opera audience attending her debut as Lucia in Donizetti 's `` Lucia di Lammermoor '' Sunday night . 
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