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:

Addlebafflebamboozlebeatbefogbefuddle,bemusebewilderbuffaloconfounddiscombobulate,disorient,confusefoxfuddlegetgravelmaze,muddlemuddymystifyperplexposepuzzlevex. 

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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