Difficult Words with Meaning and Sentence
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obfuscate 
1
 | confuse; muddle; cause confusion; make needlessly complex |
| dull and unimaginative; matter-of-fact; factual |
| noisily aggressive; making great noise or outcry |
| extreme care in spending money; reluctance to spend money unnecessarily |
obsequious
2
| command against; banish; outlaw |
| slavishly attentive; attempting to win favor from influential people by flattery |
| change from one form, nature, substance, or state into another; transform |
| indicated or understood without expressed directly; not speaking; silent |
obstreperous
3
| bitter, long-lasting resentment; deep-seated ill will; hatred |
| indicated or understood without expressed directly; not speaking; silent |
| noisily aggressive; making great noise or outcry |
| harsh or corrosive in tone; sarcastic; bitterly scathing |
portent
4
| precisely meaningful; forceful and brief |
| omen; forewarning; something that portends an event about to occur, especially unfortunate or evil event |
| streaked, spotted, or marked with a variety of color; very colorful |
| person hardened in sin; person without moral scruples |
propitious
5
| dull and unimaginative; matter-of-fact; factual |
| coarse or indecent; humorously vulgar or offensive |
| presenting favorable circumstances; fortunate; advantageous |
| abnormally pale; lacking intensity of color or luminousness |
prosaic
6
| false; counterfeit; forged; illogical |
| dull and unimaginative; matter-of-fact; factual |
| make senseless or dizzy; be mystery or bewildering to |
| precisely meaningful; forceful and brief |
rebuke
7
| dullness; insipidity of thought; commonplace statement; lack of originality |
| filled to brim or to point of being stuffed; abundantly supplied |
| scarcity; smallness of number; fewness |
| scold harshly; criticize severely |
ribald
8
| disown; refuse to acknowledge; reject validity or authority of |
| model of excellence or perfection; peerless example |
| quality of being sagacious; quickness or acuteness of sense perceptions; keenness of discernment; shrewdness |
| coarse or indecent; humorously vulgar or offensive |
sagacity
9
| having lost motion, or the power of exertion and feeling; numb; benumbed |
| quality of being sagacious; quickness or acuteness of sense perceptions; keenness of discernment; shrewdness |
| versatile; able to take on many shapes; readily taking on varied shapes |
| precisely meaningful; forceful and brief |
spurious
10
| versatile; able to take on many shapes; readily taking on varied shapes |
| dull; impassive; having or revealing little emotion or sensibility |
| false; counterfeit; forged; illogical |
| disown; refuse to acknowledge; reject validity or authority of |