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Repose

/riˈpoʊz/
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(verb) To lay (someone, or part of their body) down to rest.

His brief repose was interrupted by her arrival.
How gaily the kids skip and play, whilst I sink into listless repose!
CEFR Practice Quiz
She found a sense of ____ in the quiet garden that she could not find anywhere else in the city.

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