Thaumasmus (thau-mas’-mus): To marvel at something rather than to state it in a matter of fact way.
I can’t believe how much oil has poured into the Gulf of Mexico since April! Can it really be 12 million gallons? All that oil from one blown-out well? What a disaster!
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Definition courtesy of “Silva Rhetoricae” (rhetoric.byu.edu)
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