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   perplex

   /pəˈplɛks/

   verb

   • 1. make (someone) feel completely baffled: "she was perplexed by her husband's moodiness"
   • ▪ complicate or confuse (a matter): "they were perplexing a subject plain in itself"

   Word Origin late 15th century (as the adjective perplexed): from the obsolete adjective perplex ‘bewildered’, from Latin perplexus ‘entangled’, based on plexus ‘interwoven’, from the verb plectere.

   Scrabble Points: 18

   • P

     3

   • E

     1

   • R

     1

   • P

     3

   • L

     1

   • E

     1

   • X

     8

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