obfuscate
C1CEFR level
58/100Rarity: uncommon
FormalRegister
General verb
To deliberately make something unclear or confusing.
The report seemed designed to obfuscate the losses.
Law verb
To deliberately make something obscure or hard to understand.
The witness seemed to obfuscate rather than explain how the funds had moved.
Business verb
To make a position deliberately unclear so as to obscure one's real aim.
Their lawyers obfuscated the liability terms with dense drafting to bury the exposure.
Rarity runs from 0 (a word everyone knows) to 100 (almost never seen outside specialist or literary writing). Level is the word's real difficulty on the CEFR scale, from A1 to C2.
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