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CARD 3 OF 4

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Troubled or unsettled.

adjective

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perturbed

The curator was perturbed by the unexplained gap in the inventory.
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The perturbed editor pauses publication after noticing that the page would confuse readers already trying to understand an attribution problem.
From A Review and Its Corrections.
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