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Paul's Case
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- He had been suspended a week ago, and his father had called at the Principal's office and confessed his perplexity about his son.†
*perplexity = confusion due to complexity
- In the itch to let his instructors know how heartily he despised them and their homilies, and how thoroughly he was appreciated elsewhere, he mentioned once or twice that he had no time to fool with theorems; adding—with a twitch of the eyebrows and a touch of that nervous bravado which so perplexed them—that he was helping the people down at the stock company; they were old friends of his.†
perplexed = confused or puzzled
Definitions:
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(1)
(perplex) to confuse
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)