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41obfuscate — v 1. confuse, bewilder, muddle, perplex; puzzle, baffle, confound, fluster, Inf. rattle; stupefy, mystify, disconcert, daze, befuddle, dazzle; jumble, mess up, complicate, scramble, garble. 2. obscure, cloud, fog, smoke, nubilate, blur,… …
42obscure — adj 1. vague, unclear, indefinite, uncertain, doubtful, dubious; abstruse, recondite, arcane; ambiguous, equivocal, cryptic, enigmatic; unfathomable, impenetrable, incomprehensible, mysterious, perplexing, puzzling, confusing, confused. 2.… …
43provincialism — n 1. regionalism, idiom, localism; dialect, patois; local habit or custom, idiosyncrasy, trait, characteristic, earmark, distinctive feature, Inf. giveaway or dead giveaway. 2. narrowness, bias, bent, leaning, colored or slanted view, partiality …
44shade — n 1. darkness, duskiness, dusk, dimness, lightlessness; shadiness, shadowiness; cloudiness, mur kiness, murk; gloom, gloominess, somberness, tene brousness; obscurity, indistinctness, nebulousness, faintness, vagueness. 2. apparition, specter,… …
45unbenight — un·benight …
46benighted — /bəˈnaɪtəd / (say buh nuytuhd) adjective 1. intellectually or morally ignorant; unenlightened: *None of these was considered worthy of attention, so long as government and the churches saw Aboriginal nomadism as a benighted form of existence.… …
47benighted — adj. 1 intellectually or morally ignorant. 2 overtaken by darkness. Derivatives: benightedness n. Etymology: obs. benight (v.) …
48sweep over — verb overcome, as with emotions or perceptual stimuli (Freq. 3) • Syn: ↑overwhelm, ↑overpower, ↑whelm, ↑overcome, ↑overtake • Hypernyms: ↑arouse, ↑ …
49unbenight — “+ transitive verb Etymology: un (II) + benight archaic : to free from night or darkness …
