A truck loaded with thousands of copies of Roget's Thesaurus
crashed yesterday losing its entire load. Witnesses were stunned, startled, aghast, taken aback, stupefied, confused, shocked,
rattled, paralysed, dazed, bewildered, mixed up, surprised, awed, dumbfounded, nonplussed, flabbergasted, astounded, amazed,
confounded, astonished, overwhelmed, horrified, numbed, speechless,
and perplexed.
I wonder, however, how to choose a word from the list. ;-) They also
forgot about bamboozled, flummoxed, giddy, at sixes and sevens, discombobulated, dismayed, appalled, awe/thunderstruck, wordless, tongue-tied, inarticulate and, I suppose many others. It have given
me an idea that there is something special in English culture
concerning how often people have surprises. ;-)
A truck loaded with thousands of copies of Roget's
Thesaurus crashed yesterday losing its entire load.
Witnesses were stunned, startled, aghast, taken aback,
stupefied, confused, shocked, rattled, paralysed, dazed,
bewildered, mixed up, surprised, awed, dumbfounded,
nonplussed, flabbergasted, astounded, amazed,
confounded, astonished, overwhelmed, horrified, numbed,
speechless, and perplexed.
adjective cellar like cousin Len's:
That's a wonderful link!!! Thanks!
As to omitting needless adjectives, it is an obvious advice,
for any needless thing should be discarded. The difficult
part is telling which are needless...
I once read a book on "how to do sculpture". It was very
short. It said in effect, decide what you want to
sculpt, then remove all the marble that isn't part of
that sculpture. :-) Cheers... Dallas
One young man annoyed Brecht with a requst of
advice
One young man annoyed Brecht with a requst of
advice
*for* advice.
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