Thousands of words dot the English language dictionary and each word is explained in a certain manner. Because of this abundance of words there are many which have similar meanings.
The sentence ‘I am baffled by the innumerable SYNONYMS for the word BAFFLE’ throws up two words: SYNONYM and BAFFLE. All the words that mean something similar to another word are its synonyms, and the synonyms of baffle include amaze, astound, bewilder, puzzle, perplex, mystify, bemuse and befuddle, to name but a few.
We can find synonyms in our everyday life whenever you read the daily news paper. If you read more than two newspapers then you will realise how synonyms help people to put their points of view more clearly. Look at this example: