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  • You know what, my hands are sweating and our hands usually sweat when we are really scared

  • and when you feel so scared that you have no words to speak that's when you're feeling

  • speechless, because you're so scared and your hands start sweating, you start shivering

  • and you feel very anxious, have you had such an experience in the past? Maybe you're giving

  • a presentation or you're meeting your girlfriend's parents for the first time, how do you feel?

  • Don't you feel speechless? If you want to learn different words to talk about being

  • speechless, then keep watching this lesson with me, this is Michelle.

  • So here we have with us a combination of words that we are going to learn to talk about being

  • speechless. Let's start with the first onedisconcerted”. Have you heard the word

  • concert’? You must have been to a concert as well, a musical performance where a singer

  • is performing. When you go to a concert, you see that lot of people join together to perform

  • and this is just the opposite of a concert, which is a disconcerted state. So here somebody

  • who’s feeling disconcerted, has lost composure, they feel sort of angry. So a person who has

  • lost composure, feels angry at a bad news, feels disconcerted. So someone who has lost

  • composure or patience. So if someone's daughter is constantly performing bad in exams, her

  • parents might be feeling disconcerted. so a little girl might say that, “I'm very

  • scared to tell my parents about the result, they might feel disconcerted.” which means

  • that, they might lose their composure and they might scream at her, shout at her or

  • even be very angry at her. Okay so disconcerted means, to lose space and to be angry and that's

  • how they're speechless, because they don't want to say anything, they're very angry.

  • Okay now the next word that we have is, “dumbfoundedor dumbfounded. Do you know who is a dumb

  • person? A person who cannot speak and that's where this word comes from, when you find

  • yourself, okay? Found is the past for find. So when you find yourself in a position when

  • you just cannot speak that's when you are dumbfounded. When you cannot speak at all,

  • out of surprise. So when you cannot speak out of surprise. Has it ever happened to you

  • that you found yourself dumbfounded? What happens when you see your favorite celebrity

  • passing by you? You feel dumbfounded because you're so surprised and so excited that you

  • just don't have any words to speak. So that is dumbfounded for you. The next one that

  • we have isdumbstruck”. This is just another synonym for the first one. You can

  • use it in place of dumbfounded. It also means you don't have any words and you're just speechless

  • out of excitement and surprise. You can't speak out of excitement. recently I went for

  • dinner with my family and I saw that my friend Sophia was in the same restaurant, to find

  • Sophia in the same restaurant I was absolutely dumbstruck, I was so surprised and so excited,

  • I didn't know what to speak because I was happy and excited. So this is another speechless

  • moment, but a happy speechless moment. This is obviously an opposite for disconcerted

  • because when you're disconcerted, you're angry and speechless and here you're happy and speechless.

  • Okay the next one that we have isflabbergasted”. When do you feel flabbergasted? So you feel

  • flabbergasted when you are shocked, that's when you feel flabbergasted. It’s not a

  • happy not an angry moment but a very shocked moment. When you didn't expect something and

  • it happened. So when you're very shocked and you cannot speak out of the shock, so if you

  • get a $10,000 bill for your cell phone without making too much calls, how will you feel?

  • You feel very shocked and that's when you can say this, I am absolutely flabbergasted

  • how come I got this bill? So this is flabbergasted for you. Now let's look at the next one, “flummoxed”.

  • This word is used for a state of utter confusion. How does math make you feel? Maybe it makes

  • you feel great but for me math makes me feel really flummoxed, which means it makes me

  • feel really confused. So when you're really confused that's when you're very flummoxed.

  • So you could say that in the final exam. All the questions made me feel flummoxed because

  • I didn't prepare. So when you're not prepared, you feel confused when you read the questions

  • because you don't know the answer. Now we have another word which is a stronger version

  • of flummoxed and that is, “nonplussed”. So when you're way too shocked okay or way

  • too confused that's when you say you're nonplussed. Which when you're extremely confused. So when

  • you're extremely confused, you could say that you were nonplussed. nonplussed could be used

  • in a sentence when you let's say there's a situation, when your boss told you that you're

  • the best employee and the next day he tells you that he's firing you, how would you feel?

  • You’d feel absolutely confused and shocked like why is he doing that, he told you that

  • you're the best employee and then he's telling you he's firing you without a reason. So when

  • you're so confused and extremely shocked that's when youre nonplussed. Okay the next one

  • that we have isspeechless”. So you're speechless out of amazement. This is the word

  • that I've been using throughout this lesson and even the topic of the lesson is speechless.

  • It means same as dumbfounded when you don't have words. So when you don't have words out

  • of amazement, you're speechless or dumbfounded, no words because of amazement. okay if you

  • want to use speechless in a sentence you could say that, the music left me speechless, which

  • means that you loved the music so much and you enjoyed it so much that you were absolutely

  • amazed by it, you couldn't believe that how somebody could create such great music. The

  • next word that we have is, “tongue-tied”. What if your tongue is tired, what will happen?

  • Will you be able to talk? No! You won't be able to talk and such a situation occurs when

  • you're very nervous, that's when you're tongue-tied. So when you're very nervous you're tongue-tied.

  • what happens when you have to go to meet your girlfriend's parents for the first time, you'll

  • obviously be very nervous and like I said in the video your hands might also be sweating,

  • when your hand starts sweating it's called, “flop sweatingwhich means out of nervousness.

  • So when your hands are flop sweating and your tongue is tied you could say that, I'm really

  • tongue-tied right now I don't know what to say. Or you could say that, she was tongue-tied

  • to meet his parents for the first time. The second last word that we have isdiscombobulated”.

  • That it's really a hard word to pronounce, sometimes it's hard for me as well but it's

  • pronounced as dis-cum-baw-byou-lated. It has a similar meaning to the word disconcerted

  • which means to lose composure. So when you lose your composure, that's when you feel

  • discombobulated. This one is out of anger you lose patience and you lose patience here

  • out of frustration. So when you're so frustrated after a very bad day, you feel discombobulated.

  • To lose patience after being frustrated, to be frustrated. So you could say that I was

  • quite discombobulated after the really bad day that I had. This is also a very good word

  • that you can use for writing, for speaking you might want to use words like dumbfounded

  • and dumbstruck which are informal words. But what's like disconcerted and discombobulated

  • are usually formal words that you use when you're writing and less when you're speaking.

  • Okay now we look at the last word for the day and this one is a much stronger version

  • of tongue-tied, when you're way too nervous, that's when you use, “befuddled”. So if

  • you're giving a presentation and you feel very disorganized, you don't know what to

  • say because you've not prepared well and you're disorganized, your presentation is disorganized,

  • that's when you say befuddled. So you're disorganized and you've not prepared well and you have

  • to give a presentation so you feel very scared and very nervous. And to use it in a sentence

  • you could say that, she was befuddled while giving the presentation, which means that

  • she was disorganized and that's why she was so nervous. So here are all the different

  • ways to say that you're speechless. I told you that there are certain words that you

  • can use in a formal situation when you're writing, and certain words that you can use

  • when you're speaking. So make sure you use these words next time you feel speechless,

  • now you have enough words and you don't actually have to be speechless, so speak more learn

  • more and thank you so much for watching this session with me. I hope you have a great time

  • ahead, bye-bye.

You know what, my hands are sweating and our hands usually sweat when we are really scared

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