Vocabulary Word
Word: baffle
Definition: frustrate; perplex
Definition: frustrate; perplex
Sentences Containing 'baffle'
and he was to go before:--but still was to be seen again ere I could perish--How's that?--There's a riddle now might baffle all the lawyers backed by the ghosts of the whole line of judges:--like a hawk's beak it pecks my brain.
More Vocab Words
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::: intolerant - not willing to accept ways of thinking different from one's own; CF. tolerant; CF. tolerate
::: derelict - negligent; (of someone) neglectful of duty; (of something) deserted by an owner; abandoned; N: abandoned property; homeless or vagrant person
::: forsake - desert; abandon; renounce
::: concomitant - that which accompanies; Ex. Deafnes is a frequent concommitant of old age; ADJ: existing or happening together with something else
::: predetermine - determine in advance; predestine; settle or decide beforehand; influence markedly
::: nauseous - causing nausea; feeling nausea
::: figurine - small ornamental statuette(very small statue)
::: chimerical - fantastically improbable; highly unrealistic; N. chimera: unreal fancy; fire-breathing female creature
