Some perennial favorites are:

Kerfuffle — sounds like a tiny, chaotic disaster.

Bamboozle — fun to say and even funnier to use seriously.

Hullabaloo — almost impossible to say without smiling.

Flummox — somehow perfectly captures confusion.

Nincompoop — a delightfully old-fashioned insult.

Gobbledygook — nonsense with a wonderfully nonsensical name.

Skedaddle — the official verb for leaving in a hurry (and with style).

Brouhaha — a fancy word for a fuss.

Bumfuzzle — a Southern U.S. favorite meaning to confuse or fluster someone.

Snollygoster — an old American word for an unprincipled politician that deserves a comeback.