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Vocabulary

Nonplussed

I wonder if I can use at a loss, perplexed, puzzed or lost instead of non plussed?

( original text): Nonplussed , the raiders fled empty-handed.

question; The robbers were completely ______ ( at a loss, perplexed, puzzled , lost) by this and ran out with any money.
  

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Hi, I wonder if I can use at a loss, perplexed, puzzed or lost instead of non plussed? ( original text): Nonplussed , the raiders fled empty-handed. question; The robbers were completely __ ( at a loss, perplexed, puzzled , lost) by this and ran out with any money.

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Hi,

I wonder if I can use at a loss, perplexed, puzzed or lost instead of non plussed?

( original text): Nonplussed , the raiders fled empty-handed.

question; The robbers were completely __ ( at a loss, perplexed, puzzled , lost) by this and ran out with any money.

nonplussed by this includes a sense of surprise



at a loss