Words of Wisdom

To keep an ever growing thirst for the use of poetic language quenched, I believe a sizable vocabulary is required.
So with that in mind I give you Words of Wisdom.
A good way to look at this is the method of verbatim, using the same words that you come across, however this does require a decent muse. So reading, or better still listening, to eloquent people is key.
The word for today is Catatonic.
This is a description most often used to explain the state of someone in great shock or in relation to schizophrenia. This is due to it's physical manifestation being that of rigidity and mental stupor with the person often being completely confused or influenced by great excitement.
Thus the phrase 'He/She looks/looked catatonic' could be used as in a figurative sense to explain a person in great distress with not understanding a situation or experiencing unrestrained joy.