2016年4月5日 · @Gaia, I'm not sure what you mean. How would you decipher its meaning from the phrase "It's imperative that we impress upon congress that that its urgent that they act on Climate Change." Or would you take issue with my usage here? Other synonyms are persist, persevere, and repeat and pound away. Maybe you're just not familiar with this useage?

2016年4月6日 · (1838) 238 Impress on my heart so tender a sense of thy sufferings. 1776 Gibbon Decline & Fall I. xi. 297 A few such examples impressed a salutary consternation. 1839 Dickens Nicholas Nickleby x. 90, I am sure you will impress upon your children the necessity of attaching themselves to it early in life.

2016年3月14日 · Inculcate implies persistent or repeated endeavor with the intent to impress firmly on the mind [examples omitted] Merriam-Webster's synonym dictionary doesn't list or discuss indoctrinate at all—a surprise since it seems so similar to inculcate in …

2016年9月4日 · Please expand upon your answer. Impress means to make an imprint upon (either physical or mental). We can either make an imprint on something or take (also have) that imprint from something. Which way the imprinting goes will dictate which preposition we choose. –

2014年7月25日 · To impress (something) upon the mind of another by frequent instruction or repetition; instill: inculcating sound principles. To teach (others) by frequent instruction or repetition; indoctrinate: inculcate the young with a sense of duty. Source: The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language

2015年6月17日 · characterized by or given to pretentious or conspicuous show in an attempt to impress others (of actions, manner, qualities exhibited, etc.) intended to attract notice A more well-known alternative is ' pompous ', but it doesn't necessarily mean someone is attempting to impress others, and could just mean someone is "full of themselves".

Impede simply means hinder or possibly prevent or delay:. impede verb [with object] delay or prevent (someone or something) by obstructing them; hinder:

2015年5月1日 · astonish verb: ; 3rd person present: astonishes; past tense: astonished; past participle: astonished; gerund or present participle: astonishing surprise or impress (someone) greatly. "Though I'd seen it in photographs, the Great Pyramid's immensity is astonishing when you see it in real life for the first time!"

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What are some grandiloquent, or simply better, ways of expressing "an idea/thought suddenly came to me", or "an idea/thought struck me", or "I was struck by an idea/thought"?