Sample Sentences for
perplex
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    They should perplex me.  (source)
    perplex = confuse or puzzle
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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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    Michael shrugged, disoriented, perplexed.  (source)
    perplexed = confused or puzzled
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    Jem was perplexed.  (source)
    perplexed = confused
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    To him, perplexity was worse than danger; and when he was perplexed he usually grew angry.  (source)
    perplexity = confusion due to complexity
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    they were perplexing to reflect upon,--insoluble mysteries both.  (source)
    perplexing = confusing
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    He vividly recalled those old doubts and perplexities,  (source)
    perplexities = things that confuse
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    They keep coming up new all the time—things to perplex you, you know.†  (source)
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    Dr. Armstrong shook his head perplexedly.†  (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)
    standard 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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    And, for his part, he thought he should be blest To have his heir of such a suffering spirit, So wise, so grave, of so perplex'd a tongue, And loud withal, that would not wag, nor scarce Lie still, without a fee; when every word Your worship but lets fall, is a chequin!†  (source)
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