Words to Learn, Remember and Use - Copious, Profuse

Copious

Copious comes from the Latin copia, meaning "abundance." You can use copious for something quantitative, like your copious admirers, or for something qualitative, like the copious gratitude you feel for your admirers. You will often see the word amounts following copious since the adjective is often used to modify a measurement of something — like copious amounts of wine or copious amounts of hair gel.

Meaning: 

(adjective)

• Yielding or containing plenty,affording ample supply.

• A copious harvest
• Large in quantity; abundant
• Copious rainfall
• Abounding in matter, thoughts or words; wordy:
• I found the speech copious without order, and energetic without rules.

So, If you have a copious amount of something, you have a lot of it. If you take copious notes, you'll do well when it comes time for review sessions — unless you can't read your own handwriting! :) 

Some more example usage of the word:

• Friends say the younger brother smoked copious amount of cigar and rarely played.
• And he insisted that Anne track all her household expenditures, including every 15 cents spent for rubber bands, in copious account books.
• Max hadn't really lived his life, just watched it pass by while making copious notes

Profuse(adjective)

Profuse is a word for a lot of something or even way too much — a profuse rainfall is a serious amount of rain.

This word has to do with extravagance or abundance. If you're bleeding profusely, you're bleeding a lot. If you lavish profuse gifts on your pet, you might have too much money on your hands. When you give someone profuse praise, you're probably laying it on a little thick. If you’re a farmer and your crops are profuse, that’s great because you have a lot of crops. Anything profuse is happening in great amounts.

The adjective means something is marked by unrestrained abundance, for example,

profuse apologies

an profuse growth of flowers

Word usage:

• His teeth sank deep into her arm, causing profuse bleeding
• Complications include profuse bleeding in the digestive system that can lead to death.
• Bombs winced but he went about his mosaics and was soon receiving flattering comments and profuse compliments from the guests.
• Severe cholera causes profuse watery diarrhoea  often accompanied by vomiting.