• Perplex =puzzle – if smth. perplexes you, it makes you feel confused & worried, because it’s difficult to understand.
(a perplexing problem, perplexed)
• Presume – The temple is presumed to date from the first century BC. “Are his parents alive?” “I presume so.”
• Despair – a feeling that you’ve no hope at all. (She killed herself in despair. The noise from the neighbours used to drive me to despair. To the despair of the workers, the company closed the factory. Despite the illness, Roger never despaired.)
• They found him lying prostrate on the floor. – On his back.
Scotland’s lost against the Netherlands – the manager George Burley speaks and Fabio Capello gives an interview. The BBC radio 5 gives the detail.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/console/b00mkglh
The phrase I like today:
“In the days when England was little, and knew her own mind, and had a mind to know instead of a circulation of newspapers.”
B.Shaw
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