Perplex

/pərˈplɛks/ verb

To confuse someone, especially by making something hard to understand. It suggests a tangle of facts or ideas that is difficult to sort out.

From Latin “perplexus” meaning “entangled, complicated,” from “per-” (thoroughly) + “plexus” (twisted, braided). It originally described things literally tangled up.

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