Friday, September 20, 2013

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?


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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