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She was perplexed by the rules of the game.perplexed = confused
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Scientists are perplexed by the mystery.perplexed = puzzled
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I am perplexed by her behavior.perplexed = confused
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They should perplex me. (source)perplex = confuse or puzzle
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Michael shrugged, disoriented, perplexed. (source)perplexed = confused or puzzled
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I'm perplexed by her amusement until I realize that with the Careers' stores eliminated, she might actually stand a chance. (source)
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Jem was perplexed. (source)perplexed = confused
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Bathsheba regarded him with round-eyed perplexity. (source)perplexity = confusion due to complexity
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He seemed to find this case very perplexing, (source)perplexing = confusing due to complexity
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He vividly recalled those old doubts and perplexities, (source)perplexities = things that confuse
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...mystic and marvelous surprises that will entrance, delight, intrigue, astonish, and perplex you beyond measure. (source)perplex = confuse
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My mind snaps to and I stare perplexedly at the screen.† (source)
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But still Ulysses sat perplex'd, and thus The toil-enduring Hero reason'd sad.† (source)
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The thing perplexes me altogether. (source)perplexes = confuses
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For my part, I was fascinated by the exquisite grace and beauty of that fluted grove, crowned with pointed leaves and feathery heads, the lightness, the vigour, the charm as distinct as a voice of that unperplexed luxuriating life.† (source)unperplexed = not confused or puzzledstandard prefix: The prefix "un-" in unperplexed means not and reverses the meaning of perplexed. This is the same pattern you see in words like unhappy, unknown, and unlucky.
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She fixed her eyes on the framed photograph of Goebbels adorning the wall and as she did so an odd picture leaped to mind: that of Jan standing between Hoss and the other man, the child peering upward first at the Commandant and then at the stranger with the voice that was so perplexingly familiar.† (source)
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