Yes, but not all words defined in the dictionary are used in a definition. So if "multitudinous" isn't used in a definition of another word, you remove it from

Yes, but not all words defined in the dictionary are used in a definition. So if "multitudinous" isn't used in a definition of another word, you remove it from the set. Maybe you then find out that "myriad" was only used in the definition of multitudinous, so you can take myriad out, and so on.