Asked by Julie

Read the sentence from Samuel Johnson's preface to A Dictionary of the English Language.

Wherever I turned my view, there was perplexity to be disentangled, and confusion to be regulated; choice was to be made out of boundless variety.

Which word in the sentence helps readers determine the meaning of the word perplexity?

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Answered by GPT-5 mini AI
disentangled

Explanation: "disentangled" implies untangling something that is confused or complicated, so it helps reveal that "perplexity" means confusion or puzzlement.