Timeline for I am looking for an adjective to describe "painful reality"
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| Dec 26, 2015 at 15:59 | comment | added | Jay Wang | @ab2 Thank you so much! This is exactly what I want. | |
| Dec 26, 2015 at 15:58 | vote | accept | Jay Wang | ||
| Dec 26, 2015 at 15:57 | comment | added | ab2 | @Jay Wong Using eye-opener means you now realize how over-confident you were, how much you didn't understand and how much more you should have studied. Any professor would be happy to hear that his exam opened the eyes of a student. It is a positive statement about the exam. | |
| Dec 26, 2015 at 14:58 | comment | added | Jay Wang | Thank you Brian, eye-opener really stresses out the "unexpectedly", but it implies that I may have negative attitudes toward the object. Do you know other words which are more neutral? | |
| Dec 26, 2015 at 14:53 | history | answered | Brian Hooper | CC BY-SA 3.0 |