consternation
I thought I had only dropped off for a couple of minutes but, to my consternation, the clock read 9 o'clock.
They walked for half an hour, only to find to their consternation that they were back where they had started from.
Clare saw to her consternation that the price tag said £1000.
To his consternation, when he got to the airport he found he'd forgotten his passport.让他惊惶失措的是,到机场后他发现自己忘了带护照。
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases Confusion, confusing and feeling confused
addled
all of a doodahidiom
all over the placeidiom
alphabet soup
at seaidiom
disarray
discombobulation
disordered
disorganization
disorganized
muddle
muddle something up
muddle-headed
muddled
mush
unaccountable
unaccountably
unexplainable
unexplained
unsearchable
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