Consternation

by SixofNine 5 Replies latest jw friends

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  SixofNine

  This word has fallen into such disuse (is that a word?), that I had to check the dictionary to make sure it is a real word. It's a shame when things aren't appreciated, so please take a moment to appreciate "consternation", and while we're at it, let's give homage to "perturbation", Badger (teacher appreciation day), Joyzabel (birthday), and dads who read stories to they babies every night. Also google for including a dictionary link.

  ps. Bush is the worst president ever.

  pss. This is the official smiley of consternation

  consternation

  \Con`ster*na"tion\, n. [L. consternatio, fr. consternare to overome, perplex, an accessory form of consternere to trow down, prostrate; con + sternere to spread out, throw down: cf. F. consternation. See Stratum.] Amazement or horror that confounds the faculties, and incapacitates for reflection; terror, combined with amazement; dismay.
  
  The chiefs around, In silence wrapped, in consternation drowned. Attend the stern reply. --Pope.
  
  Syn: Alarm; fright; amazement; astonishment; surprise; panic; perturbation. See Alarm.
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  Carmel

  kind of like mental constripation?

  carmel
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  LittleToe

  I quite like it's synonym "perturbation", myself.
  You don't hear people using words like that anymore, like in the good old days.
  Now you only hear it from the likes of HillaryStep, who seems conspicuously absent from threads, at the moment.
  Me 'n' Bradley (Logansrun) have got a bit of a thang going at the moment. I think I cause a great deal of perturbation, in his life. I'm sorry, I really am, but sometimes life's like that

  PS. Politics suck
  PPS. This is the official smiley for perturbation

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  CeriseRose

  hehe I use the word consternation a lot. I'm working on not feeling that way so much though.
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  SixofNine

  hehe I use the word consternation a lot. I'm working on not feeling that way so much though.

  Hey, you're the chic who use that other word that one time! lol, what was middle thing?
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  jst2laws

  Hey,

  I suffered a lot of consternation and caused others perturbation until I learned of sublimation. I used to have a sign on my tool card at Bethel that said

  Sublimate.

  Jst2laws