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1. abstruse – a) hard to understand, recondite, esoteric; b) secret, hidden; Latin abstrusus, thrust away, concealed

2. bemusing – a) bewildered or confused; b) lost in thought, preoccupied

3. esoteric – a) understood by or meant for only the select few who have special knowledge or interest, recondite; b) belonging to the select few; c) private, secret, confidential; d) intended to be revealed only to the initiates of a group; e) abstruse, arcane, cryptic, enigmatic

4. opaque – a) not transparent or translucent, impenetrable to light, not allowing light to pass through; b) not transmitting radiation, sound, heat, etc.; c) not shining or bright, dark, dull; d) hard to understand, not clear or lucid, obscure, murky, cloudy, muddy

5. recondite – a) dealing with very profound, difficult or abstruse subject matter; b) beyond ordinary knowledge or understanding, esoteric; c) little known, obscure; d) from Latin reconditus, to hide, to bring together

6. ambiguous – a) statement not clear in meaning; b) a statement, act, or attitude that is capable of sometimes two or more contradictory interpretations, usually accidentally or unintentionally c) of doubtful or uncertain nature, difficult to comprehend, categorize or distinguish; d) lacking clearness or definiteness, obscure or indistinct; e) from Latin ambigere, indistinct

7. cryptic – a) statement not clear in meaning; b) an intentional obscurity in the language, and often implies a private or hidden meaning but stresses resulting mystification or puzzlement; c) mysterious in meaning, puzzling, ambiguous; d) involving or using cipher, code, etc. as in a cryptogram or a puzzle

8. inscrutable – a) incapable of being investigated, analyzed, or scrutinized, impenetrable; b) not easily understood, mysterious, unfathomable; c) incapable of being seen through physically, opaque

9. paradoxical – from Greek, paradoxos, unbelievable, beyond belief; a) having a contradictory nature, as in a person, situation, or thing; b) something characterized by being self-contradictory or absurd but in reality expresses a possible truth; c) something that contradicts a commonly accepted statement or idea

10. turbid – a) not clear or transparent because of stirred up sediment or the like, clouded, opaque; b) thick or dense, as in smoke or clouds; c) confused, muddled, disturbed; d) murky, cloudy, roiled, muddy (from Latin turbidus, disturbed, and turba, turmoil

11. arcane – a) understood by very few, mysterious, secret, obscure, esoteric (from Latin arcanus, to shut up, keep, from arca, a chest or box)

12. enigmatic – a) statement that is not clear in meaning; b) focuses on perplexity resulting from a mysterious or imponderable event or utterance, one very often of deep significance or great importance

13. equivocal – a) a statement that is not clear in meaning; b) usually the word is applied to spoken as well as written language susceptible to two or more interpretations, and it usually suggests a deliberate intent to mislead by avoiding clarity; c) allowing the possibility of several meanings, with the intent to mislead or misguide; d) of doubtful nature or character, dubious; e) of uncertain significance, not determined

14. obscure – a) ambiguous, vague or uncertain in meaning; b) not clear to the understanding, hard to perceive; c) of language, not expressing the meaning clearly or plainly; d) of little or not prominence, note, fame or distinction; e) lacking in light or illumination, dark, dim, bleak, murky; f) concealed or hidden by confusing the meaning

15. perplexing – a) causing confusion, uncertainty; b) something involving a tangled, involved or confusing situation; c) complicated, involved, entangled

 


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