This blog was created for the Advanced Program Level 6 course of the Centro Cultural Costarricense Norteamericano. Most of its entries are based on the text book "Teaching Culture: Perspectives in Practice" by Patrick R. Moran; with a little "salt and pepper" from other sources. It´s about the existing bond between language and culture, and it portrays strategies for learning, understanding and finally, being part of a new culture.
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Building vocabulary
And the word of the day is...
Today I was reading an article about date labeling and food safety, and I came across a very unfamiliar word... FLUMMOXED. Do you know what it means?
According to the Merriam Webster Online Dictionary:
flummox \ˈflə-məks, -miks\
Is a transitive verb of unknown origin that means confuse.
Some of its synonyms are:
Addle, baffle, bamboozle, beat, befog, befuddle,bemuse, bewilder, buffalo, confound, discombobulate,disorient,confuse, fox, fuddle, get, gravel, maze,muddle, muddy, mystify, perplex, pose, puzzle, vex.
Used in a sentence:
An actor who's easily flummoxed by any changes in the script, can not work with this scriptwriter.
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