mystification
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Vitali’s grown children speak with a mix of understanding and mystification at how completely their father devoted himself to another person, sometimes at the expense of being fully present in their lives.
From New York Times • Nov. 29, 2024
You could hear the searching in his voice, the mystification over where all the fairy dust went from his swing.
From Washington Post • Jul. 19, 2021
Amid the wreckage, the artist is liberated from the mystification of “great art.”
From Slate • Oct. 17, 2020
Here Aucoin, as though fishing in the same Rhine as Wagner did, creates a sense of wonderment and mystification.
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 3, 2020
The chaplain was shocked by his bellicose words and tone and, to his own amazement and mystification, deeply chagrined that they were turning him loose.
From "Catch-22" by Joseph Heller
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Vocabulary from Readings 2, Unit 5
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