The hyphenated word "stiff-frozen" in the sentence is a compound adjective. It describes the state of the dreams, indicating that they are both stiff and frozen.
Read this sentence from "The Masque of the Red Death."
"The dreams are stiff-frozen as they stand."
What kind of word is the hyphenated word?
a compound adjective
a compound noun
a compound verb
a compound adverb
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