perplexed

When Anna was planning her first visit to Xinjiang in 2015, her friends were perplexed.

He stumbled for a moment, a bit perplexed, before turning to his friends for help.

"We're always kind of perplexed where our money goes," he said.

Hence why Reneé Rapp was perplexed when, after going less than two years without releasing new solo music, people started saying she was on hiatus.

Schottenstein, an Orthodox Jew, was perplexed at the criticism that the campaign smacked of eugenics, the Nazi-embraced theory that selective reproduction can advance the human race.