✅ Muddle means to confuse someone or make them feel mixed-up (I tried to follow the instructions, but was muddled by their complexity).

✅ Discombobulate means to confuse or bewilder someone (Being in crowds discombobulates me).

✅ Both of these terms mean to make a person feel confused or mentally lost.

✅ Muddle emphasizes feeling lost or like you can’t understand something. Discombobulate suggests a more intense feeling of bewilderment (Their constant arguing muddled my thoughts; Jet lag  discombobulates him).

✅ Poetry is a form of writing that follows a particular rhythmic or metrical form (a book of poetry).

✅ Verse is writing that follows a metrical form and can refer to a whole poem or part of a poem (I could only remember some scraps of verse).

✅ Both poetry and verse can refer to a piece of metrical writing, whether it rhymes or not.

✅ However, verse can sometimes be used to suggest that a piece of poetry has no artistic merit, and sometimes a piece of poetry might not involve metrical forms and so wouldn’t be called verse (trite verse; a statement that was like poetry).

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✅ Inescapable describes something that can’t be escaped or avoided (an inescapable consequence).

✅ Inevitable describes something that is certain to happen and so can’t be avoided (When you see the puppy frolic, joy is inevitable).

✅ Both of these terms refer to things that you can’t get away from because they’re sure to happen.

✅ Inescapable is used to refer to unavoidable things, whereas inevitable refers to unavoidable events (My feelings were inescapable; An argument was inevitable).