Vocabulary - Word Group 17

Word Group : Difficult to understand 

No	Word	Meaning	Sentence
1	Abstruse	Difficult to understand; obscure	An abstruse philosophical inquiry
2	Ambiguous	Open to more than one interpretation; not having one obvious meaning	Ambiguous phrases
3	Arcane	Understood by few; mysterious or secret	Arcane procedures for electing people
4	Bemuse	Puzzle, confuse or bewilder	Her bemused expression
5	Cryptic	1.     Having a meaning that is mysterious or obscure 2.     (of coloration or markings) serving to camouflage an animal in its natural environment	1.     He found his boss’s utterances too cryptic. 2.     Cryptic plumage is thought to minimize predation
6	Enigmatic	Difficult to interpret or understand; mysterious	He look the money with enigmatic smile
7	Esoteric	Intended for or likely to be understood by only a small number of people with a specialized knowledge or interest	Esoteric philosophical debates
8	Inscrutable	Impossible to understand or interpret	Guy looked blankly inscrutable
9	Obscure	1.     Not discovered or known about; uncertain 2.     Not clearly expressed or easily understood	1.     His origins and parentage are obscure 2.     Obscure references to Proust
10	Opaque	Not able to be seen through; not transparent	Bottles filled with a pale opaque liquid
11	Paradoxical	Seemingly absurd or self-contradictory	By glorifying the acts of violence they achieve the paradoxical effect of making them trivial
12	Perplexing	Completely baffling; very puzzling	A perplexing problem
13	Recondite	(of a subject or knowledge) little known; abstruse	The book is full of recondite information
14	Turbid	(of a liquid) cloudy, opaque, or thick with suspended matter	The turbid estuary