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1. indirect
2. ambiguous
3. convoluted
4. circuitous
5. oblique
6. abstract
7. abstruse
8. cryptic
9. deep
10. recondite
11. abstracted
12. arcane
13. complicacy
14. complication
15. enigmatic
16. holocryptic
17. jargony
18. mysterious
19. oracular
20. riddle
21. complex
22. dense
23. equivocatory
24. gross
25. high
26. obscurantism
27. obscure
28. obtuse
29. sphinx
30. abstrusely
31. abstruseness
32. abstrusity
33. ambage
34. amphibolous
35. complicative
36. enigmatical
37. equivocal
38. esoteric

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