Repose
Repose noun - Freedom from activity or labor.
Usage example: the doctor ordered a period of repose for the patient recovering from pneumonia
Work
Work verb - To devote serious and sustained effort.
Usage example: the organization has worked for years to raise people's awareness of human rights issues
How words are described
| final | final repose | final work |
Both words in one sentence
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In the Season 3 episode "Clyde Bruckman's Final Repose", Mulder and Scully work with yet another psychic.
Source: Series / The X-Files - Shown Their Work: The town of Fort Repose is based off Mount Dora, a town in Florida (today a suburb of Orlando) where the author lived at the time, and accurately references other small towns in the same area.
Source: Literature / Alas, Babylon
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Work and Repose. (2016). Retrieved 2026, July 21, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/repose/work
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Work or Repose. 2016. Accessed July 21, 2026. https://thesaurus.plus/related/repose/work.
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