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befuddle

verbCommon GRE wordMore B words

to confuse or muddle someone's thinking

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The tangle of legal jargon befuddled the jury.

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clarifyenlighten

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The new intern was so blank that she completed in two days a backlog her predecessor had let pile up for weeks.

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Befuddle (verb) means to confuse or muddle someone's thinking
Here is befuddle used in an example sentence: "The tangle of legal jargon befuddled the jury."
Common synonyms for befuddle include bewilder, baffle, perplex, confound.
Antonyms of befuddle include clarify, enlighten.
Befuddle is a GRE-level vocabulary word worth knowing for the Verbal section.

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