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  • 61surprise — surprisedly /seuhr pruy zid lee, pruyzd , seuh /, adv. surpriser, n. /seuhr pruyz , seuh /, v., surprised, surprising, n. v.t. 1. to strike or occur to with a sudden feeling of wonder or astonishment, as through unexpectedness: Her beauty… …

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  • 62Nokia phone series — Nokia s nomenclature can be traced back since 2005, when the Nseries line was introduced.[1] Because of the demands and peak of that line, Nokia again introduced another series of phones named Eseries,[2] made mostly for the enterprise market.[3] …

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  • 63amaze, astonish, surprise — Amaze means to bewilder, to perplex, to astound, to stun. Its meaning can be recalled by thinking that to be amazed is to be lost in a maze : I thought you were dead; your reappearance amazes me. Astonish means to strike with sudden fear or… …

    Dictionary of problem words and expressions

  • 64beat — I n. a regularly traversed round 1) to patrol, walk one s beat 2) to cover one s beat 3) a policeman s beat rhythm 4) an irregular; regular, steady beat 5) to a beat (to dance to the beat of jungle music) unit of rhythm 6) a beat to (four beats… …

    Combinatory dictionary

  • 65floor — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) n. flooring, deck, pavement, terrazzo; story, level; rostrum. See covering, horizontal, layer. II (Roget s IV) n. 1. [The lower limit of a room] Syn. floorboards, deck, flagstones, tiles, planking,… …

    English dictionary for students

  • 66stun — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) v. t. benumb, deaden, daze, stupefy; dizzy; dumbfound, astound, astonish, bewilder. See insensibility, surprise. II (Roget s IV) v. 1. [To render unconscious] Syn. hit, put to sleep, knock out,… …

    English dictionary for students

  • 67Fear — (Roget s Thesaurus) < N PARAG:Fear >N GRP: N 1 Sgm: N 1 fear fear timidity diffidence want of confidence Sgm: N 1 apprehensiveness apprehensiveness fearfulness &c. >Adj. Sgm: N 1 solicitude solicitude anxiety care …

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  • 68thunder — [OE] Etymologically, thunder is nothing more than ‘noise’. In common with German donner, Dutch donder, and Danish torden, it goes back to a prehistoric Germanic *thonara . This was descended from the Indo European base *ton , *tn ‘resound’, which …

    The Hutchinson dictionary of word origins

  • 69puzzle# — puzzle vb Puzzle, perplex, mystify, bewilder, distract, nonplus, confound, dumbfound are comparable when they mean to disturb and baffle mentally or throw into mental confusion. The first three words express various mental reactions to what is… …

    New Dictionary of Synonyms

  • 70surprise — vb 1 Surprise, waylay, ambush are comparable when they mean to attack unawares. Surprise is in military as well as in general use. As a technical term it implies strategy in the disposition and movement of troops and equipment and secrecy in the… …

    New Dictionary of Synonyms