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Learn “Labyrinth”

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Labyrinth

noun/lab-uh-rinth/

Meaning

a complicated irregular network of passages or paths.

In context

They got lost in the labyrinth of underground tunnels.

Remember it

Think of the Minotaur's labyrinth in the Greek myth — a maze of endless twisting passages.

Use it well

Use literally for mazes or figuratively — 'a labyrinth of rules'; grander than 'maze'.