Hi Alexander -- on Aug 22 2019 at 10:52, you wrote:

AK> I wonder, however, how to choose a word from the list. ;-) They also
AK> forgot about bamboozled, flummoxed, giddy, at sixes and sevens,
AK> discombobulated, dismayed, appalled, awe/thunderstruck, wordless,
AK> tongue-tied, inarticulate and, I suppose many others. It have given
AK> me an idea that there is something special in English culture
AK> concerning how often people have surprises. ;-)

:-)

The choice of an exact word from a list of synonyms is a real challenge. We
say that in English there are NO exact synonyms; every word has a shade of
meaning that differs from any other word.

Cheers... Dallas

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