SAT vocabulary
Petrified
Rendered motionless and speechless with terror or astonishment, as if turned to stone.
Example
"The rookie driver stood petrified as the vehicle spun out of control on the icy highway."
Etymology
From French pétrifier, from Latin petra ('rock') + facere ('to make').
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