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Welcome to the English we speak.
With me, Beth, and me, fei fei.
We have a word that means shocked or surprised.
It can be when you're excited or when you're scared.
The word is shook.
Okay, shook.
Beth, how do we actually use it?
Well, it's commonly seen in the phrase I was shook.
Now, I know this sounds a bit.
Strange, because normally shook is used as the past tense of shake, but here it's being used as an adjective similar to the use of shaken, and it's used for unexpected situations.
I see.
So the other day, I was in a shop.
I turned around and there was a man right behind me.
I was shook.
I thought I was alone.
That does sound scary.
Something similar happened to me.
I was here at work, and I could feel that someone was standing right behind me.
And I turned around and it was a singer I absolutely love.
I was like, I'm shook.