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obfuscatory

adjectiveCommon GRE wordMore O words

tending to make something deliberately obscure, confusing, or unclear

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Obfuscatory in a sentence

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The report's obfuscatory jargon seemed designed to hide rather than reveal the losses.

Synonyms
confusingmuddlingopaque
Antonyms
clarifyinglucid

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Verbal · Text Completion

Critics initially dismissed the composer's late works as merely blank, but later scholars recognized in them a deliberate restraint that concealed considerable technical sophistication.

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Obfuscatory (adjective) means tending to make something deliberately obscure, confusing, or unclear
Here is obfuscatory used in an example sentence: "The report's obfuscatory jargon seemed designed to hide rather than reveal the losses."
Common synonyms for obfuscatory include confusing, muddling, opaque.
Antonyms of obfuscatory include clarifying, lucid.
Obfuscatory is a GRE-level vocabulary word worth knowing for the Verbal section.

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