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RELATED WORDS : taken taken for granted taken over taken up taken with unawares

THESAURUS

taken unawares

ad-lib, astonished, caught napping, caught off balance, caught short, extemporaneous, extemporized, haphazard, hasty, impromptu, improvised, makeshift, precipitate, rough-and-ready, snap, struck with surprise, surprised, taken aback, taken by surprise, tripped up, unarranged, unbegun, unconcocted, uncontrived, undeliberated, undevised, unhatched, unmade, unmanufactured, unorganized, unplanned, unpremeditated, unprepared, unprimed, unready, unstudied

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