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Answer:
by the stock of superlatives the author means the group of people who were superlative or of high post or standard in the audience.
And the sentence means that the person exhausted or astonished the minds of his audience that even the superlatives were surprised by his lecture and was....as said the first after Desmond Tutu in 2008 to get a standing ovation or the highest standard of applause to him.
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1. Most people take a plane to Sydney from San Francisco, so they don’t know about the pollution in the ocean.
2. The work was tiring and the crew needed to take a break and relax sometimes.
3. The sun was shining and the sea was calm, so we went small boat fishing.
4. Children learn to think in teams, that when some people play in matches they work well.
5. The number of visitors of Canada’s national parks is getting lower every year.