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- Estevan didn't seem perturbed, and I realized he must hear this kind of thing every day of his life.
Chpt 7. *perturbed = disturbed
- Turtle was the only one of us who didn't seem perturbed by the landscape.†
Chpt 14.
Definitions:
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(1)
(perturb as in: she was perturbed) to disturb in mind or make uneasy
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(meaning too rare to warrant focus) in physics or astronomy: a secondary influence on a system that causes it to deviate slightly