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Question 3 Unsaved
How best is the word "confounded" defined as used in the sentence from our text?

"Some writers have so confounded society with government, as to leave little or no distinction between them; whereas they are not only different, but have different origins."

Question 3 options:

joined; yoked; fused

denigrated; wasted

comforted; ameliorated; rested

bewildered; confused; perplexed