[{"Bold_text": "adjective", "List Items": ["confused or muddled:They claim this is the prevailing economic theory, taught in the best schools, and that I am a hopelessly befuddled fool for questioning it.", "puzzled or perplexed:People often ask us—usually with a befuddled look on their face—\"Why on earth are you doing this?\"", "stupidly drunk:I don't he's up at all—in fact, he looks almost frighteningly befuddled and out of it."]}, {"Bold_text": "verb", "List Items": ["the simple past tense and past participle of befuddle ."]}]