Saturday, June 24, 2017

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Lily Tomlin: "Man invented language to satisfy his deep need to complain."



Nonplussed - non PLUSST/noun/1582. A state of utter perplexity in which one is unable to act further. Roget's Thesaurus of Words for Writers and Merriam Webster's Collegiate Dictionary


Synonyms: bewildered, perplexed, flummoxed, dazed, confounded. Roget's Super Thesaurus



>>He looked through the front windshield, then once more to make sure what he saw was really there, and sat back nonplussed. "You know," he said thoughtfully, "I don't think I've ever been this close to a live moose before."  from Winter at the Door by Sarah Graves<<




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