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Upee543 Posted 12 years ago
Vocabulary

spanning the gamut

Hi, what does spanning the gamut in this paragraph mean?
She stood for a moment,
watching Ben, her emotions spanning the gamut. She could not decide
if she was more glad, hurt, angry, or scared
  

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It means she felt every variety of emotion, such as the ones mentioned.

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  • It means she felt every variety of emotion, such as the ones mentioned.
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It means she felt every variety of emotion, such as the ones mentioned.
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upee543She stood for a moment,watching Ben, her emotions spanning the gamut.
See the definition of "gamut":

http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/gamut?s=t
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upee543 - wow - I suppose you're reading 'The Bright One'?
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In my experience, the idiomatic phrase is 'run the gamut' rather than 'span the gamut'.

In addition, your sentence does not really make clear what the gamut consists of. Your adjectives do not clearly indicate a range. They just indicate 4 different feelings.
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