[{"Bold_text": "adjective", "List Items": ["not thinking coherently or rationally; bewildered ; perplexed :My attempt to explain was met with confused stares and shrugging shoulders.Hopelessly confused, I just tossed my trash into what I thought was the right receptacle.", "incorrectly differentiated, identified, or associated:You’re getting him confused with another player with the same name—this one plays for the Twins.In this lesson, students learn the frequently confused words their, they’re, and there.", "without order; jumbled:Over time, the original neat lines of tents grew into a confused tangle of canvas-roofed shelters.What was once an imposing fortress is now just a confused heap of erect and fallen stones.", "disconcerted, perturbed, or ashamed:I emerged from the office red-faced and confused.", "expressed in a way that is not easily understood:The novel plods along trying to provide hopelessly confused technical detail, much of which is blatantly impossible according to the elementary laws of physics."]}, {"Bold_text": "verb", "List Items": ["the simple past tense and past participle of confuse ."]}]