Clarity/Lack of clarity

Question 1

Arcane, arcaneness, arcanely.

Answer 1

Understood by few, mysterious or secret.
“This book examines the arcane practices of the Freemasons.”
“Arcane procedures for electing people.”

Question 2

Abstruse, abstruseness, abstrusely.

Answer 2

Difficult to understand, more complicated than necessary.
“An abstruse philosophical inquiry.”
“Still, this is a Frank Black album, with its obscure references and abstruse lyrics.”

Question 3

Esoteric, esotericism,an esotericist, esoterically.

Answer 3

Intended for or likely to be understood by only a small number of people with a specialized knowledge or interest.
“Esoteric philosophical debates.”

Question 4

Inscrutable, inscrutableness, inscrutably.

Answer 4

Incomprehensible, mysterious, enigmatic.

“An inscrutable and incomparably powerful force permeates the Universe and binds it together.”

Question 5

To obscure something, obscurity, obscure, obscurely.

Answer 5

To make something difficult to understand.
Unclear, ambiguous.
“We understand that anti-Semitism obscures the reality of what it is to be a Jew, and has enabled atrocities great and small to be committed upon the Jewish people.”

Question 6

Recondite.

Answer 6

Of a subject or knowledge: Little known, abstruse.
“The book is full of recondite information.”
“His accompanying text may not answer every question on this recondite subject.”

Question 7

Turbid, turbidity, turbidly.

Answer 7

Obscure in meaning or effect; of a liquid: cloudy, with sediments stirred up.
“Cloudy or turbid water can quickly clog a filter and shorten the life of the unit.”

Question 8

Diffuse.

Answer 8

Lacking clarity.

“The second argument is more diffuse.”

Question 9

Opaque.

Answer 9

Especially of language: Hard to understand.

“He used technical jargon that was opaque to her.”

Question 10

Rarefied.

Answer 10

Distant from the lives and concerns of ordinary people, esoteric.
“She grew up in a rarefied world of private girls’ schools and arranged marriages.”

Question 11

Coherent.

Answer 11

Of an argument, theory: logical and consistent; of a person: able to speak clearly and logically.
“They failed to develop a coherent economic strategy.”
“She was lucid and coherent and did not appear to be injured.”

Question 12

Comprehensible, comprehensibility, comprehensibly.

Answer 12

Understandable, intelligible.

“Clear and comprehensible English.”

Question 13

Explicit, explicitness, explicitly.

Answer 13

Stated clearly and in detail, leaving no room for confusion or doubt; of a person: stating something in an explicit manner.
“To ensure consistency, several definitions were made explicit before data entry began.”
“Let me be explicit.”

Question 14

Limpid, limpidity, limpidly.

Answer 14

Of a liquid: clear and transparent; intelligible.

“He writes in a limpid style.”

Question 15

Lucid, lucidity, lucidly.

Answer 15

Expressed clearly, easy to understand; of a person: having the ability to think clearly.
“It’s written in very concrete language, very lucid, easy to understand.”

Question 16

Pellucid, pellucidity, pellucidly.

Answer 16

Easily understood, lucid; transparent, translucent.
“He writes, as always, in pellucid prose.”
“Mountains reflected in the pellucid waters.”

Question 17

Perspicuous, perspicuity, perspicuously.

Answer 17

Clearly expressed and easily understood, lucid.

“It provides simpler and more perspicuous explanations than its rivals.”

Question 18

Unequivocal, unequivocalness, unequivocally.

Answer 18

Leaving no doubt; unambiguous.

“An unequivocal answer.”

Question 19

Unambiguous, unambiguity, unambiguously.

Answer 19

Leaving no doubt; unambiguous.

“Instructions should be unambiguous.”

Question 20

Plain, plainness, plain (adverb).

Answer 20

Easy to understand; clearly expressed, without abstruse terms.
“An insurance policy written in plain English.”
“The advantages were plain to see.”
“I’m finished with you, I’ll tell you plain.”

Question 21

Inconspicuous, inconspicuousness, inconspicuously.

Answer 21

Not easily noticed or seen; not prominent or striking.

“An inconspicuous red-brick building.”

Question 22

To fathom something or someone, a fathom, fathomable, unfathomable.

Answer 22

To understand a difficult problem or an enigmatic person after much thought; to measure the depth of water.
Noun: A unit of length.
Adjective: Immeasurable, incapable of being understood.
“He couldn’t fathom why she was being so anxious.”
“An attempt to fathom the ocean.”

Question 23

To adumbrate something, adumbration, adumbrative.

Answer 23

To outline, give a faint indication of something; to foreshadow a future event; to oversahdow something.
“Hobhouse had already adumbrated the idea of a welfare state.”
“Tenors solemnly adumbrate the fate of the convicted sinner.”
“Her happy reminiscences were adumbrated by consciousness of something else.”