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he looked at me in perplexity

  • 1 perplejidad

    f.
    perplexity, bewilderment.
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    1 perplexity
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    SF
    1) (=confusión) perplexity, puzzlement
    2) (=indecisión) hesitation
    3) (=situación perpleja) perplexing situation
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    femenino perplexity, puzzlement
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    = perplexity, bewilderment, puzzlement, bewilderness.
    Ex. The combination of perplexity over what is the right mix and apparent inability to represent information activity dynamically is very strong.
    Ex. Such power groups subsume the individual will as never before, and generate feelings of bewilderment, apathy, violence, alienation.
    Ex. Often we 'hide' our puzzlement behind comments like, 'I didn't like the way the story ended, did you?' or 'I wasn't convinced by the husband as a character'.
    Ex. The article 'Library scavenger hunts: a way out of the bewilderness' describes the use of library scavenger hunts to teach high school and college students research strategies and to make library use both enticing and enriching.
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    * con perplejidad = quizzically, perplexedly.
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    femenino perplexity, puzzlement
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    = perplexity, bewilderment, puzzlement, bewilderness.

    Ex: The combination of perplexity over what is the right mix and apparent inability to represent information activity dynamically is very strong.

    Ex: Such power groups subsume the individual will as never before, and generate feelings of bewilderment, apathy, violence, alienation.
    Ex: Often we 'hide' our puzzlement behind comments like, 'I didn't like the way the story ended, did you?' or 'I wasn't convinced by the husband as a character'.
    Ex: The article 'Library scavenger hunts: a way out of the bewilderness' describes the use of library scavenger hunts to teach high school and college students research strategies and to make library use both enticing and enriching.
    * con perplejidad = quizzically, perplexedly.

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    perplexity, puzzlement
    mostró perplejidad he looked perplexed o confused o puzzled
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    perplejidad sustantivo femenino
    perplexity, puzzlement
    perplejidad sustantivo femenino perplexity, puzzlement
    ' perplejidad' also found in these entries:
    Spanish:
    aturdimiento
    English:
    baffled
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    perplexity, bewilderment;
    me miró con perplejidad he looked at me in perplexity o bewilderment
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    f perplexity
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    : perplexity

    Spanish-English dictionary > perplejidad

  • 2 perpleja

    adj.&f.
    doubtful, uncertain, perplexed.
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    perplejo,-a adjetivo bewildered, perplexed: se quedó perplejo, he was puzzled
    ' perpleja' also found in these entries:
    English:
    take aback

    Spanish-English dictionary > perpleja

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