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convoluted
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convoluted as in:  convoluted thinking

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It's hard to follow her convoluted reasoning.
convoluted = very complex
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    She believes in some kind of convoluted conspiracy theory.
    convoluted = complex
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    Unwilling to let McCandless go, I spent more than a year retracing the convoluted path that led to his death in the Alaska taiga, chasing down details of his peregrinations with an interest that bordered on obsession.  (source)
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    He decided it was too convoluted to bother fixing.  (source)
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    Nowadays, Langdon hesitated even to mention the Knights Templar while lecturing because it invariably led to a barrage of convoluted inquiries into assorted conspiracy theories.  (source)
    convoluted = complex
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    On his desk is an inkstand of Byzantine convolution and splendour.†  (source)
    standard suffix: The suffix "-tion", converts a verb into a noun that denotes the action or result of the verb. Typically, there is a slight change in the ending of the root verb, as in action, education, and observation.
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    O little shells, so curious-convolute, so limpid-cold and voiceless, Will you not little shells to the tympans of temples held, Murmurs and echoes still call up, eternity's music faint and far, Wafted inland, sent from Atlantica's rim, strains for the soul of the prairies, Whisper'd reverberations, chords for the ear of the West joyously sounding, Your tidings old, yet ever new and untranslatable, Infinitesimals out of my life, and many a life, (For not my life and years alone I give—all, all I give,) These waifs from the deep, cast high and dry, Wash'd on America's shores?†  (source)
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    There was width to the eye, a smoking sun-hazed amplitude, the world convoluting and opening into the world, hill and plain, into the west.†  (source)
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    She was a thoughtful, well-read young woman, with opinions on a variety of topics such as the responsibility that came with Britain's military power, the nature of commerce and industry under a monarchy, how to care for the poor and neglected, the sensationalist tendencies of the Fleet Street papers, and the convolutions of the legal system as exposed by the eminent author Charles Dickens.  (source)
    convolutions = complexities
    standard suffix: The suffix "-tions", converts a verb into a plural noun that denotes results of the verb. Typically, there is a slight change in the ending of the root verb, as in actions, illustrations, and observations.
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    Harold cried convolutedly.†  (source)
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    My life is a convoluted web of lies.  (source)
    convoluted = complex
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    "But our beauty lies," explained Metzger, "in this extended capacity for convolution.†  (source)
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    James is known, of course, as a master, perhaps the master, of psychological realism; if you want massive novels with sentences as long and convoluted as the Missouri River, James is your man.  (source)
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    His eyes were vivid with real interest now, trying — again — to unravel the convoluted workings of my mind.  (source)
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convoluted as in:  convoluted folds of the brain

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    The cerebral cortex is highly convoluted.
    convoluted = having complex folds and twists
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    She is studying brain convolutions and fissures.
    convolutions = complex folds and twists
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    Doon knelt down beside a clump of stones. He ran a finger over their convoluted surface.  (source)
    convoluted = having many complicated ridges
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    Grandfather's been dead for all these years, but if you lifted my skull, by God, in the convolutions of my brain you'd find the big ridges of his thumbprint.  (source)
    convolutions = twists and folds
    standard suffix: The suffix "-tions", converts a verb into a plural noun that denotes results of the verb. Typically, there is a slight change in the ending of the root verb, as in actions, illustrations, and observations.
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    After diagonally crossing the crypt, the group entered a dimly lit foyer and began winding through a convoluted series of hallways and dead ends.  (source)
    convoluted = complexly turning
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    he held her tighter and ran the tip of his tongue along her cheek and onto the lobe of her ear and along the lovely convolutions to the sweet, firm rim at the top,  (source)
    convolutions = curves and folds
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    His favorite item was a root so convoluted he never tired of looking at it.  (source)
    convoluted = complexly twisted and folded
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    The door was open behind them, held back by a big pink conch shell with hints of sea sunsets in its smooth inner convolutions.  (source)
    convolutions = twists and folds
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    His route is so convoluted that it seems for a time as if he has no destination in mind.  (source)
    convoluted = having complex turns
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    If you can imagine a toadstool in joints, an interminable string of toadstools, budding and sprouting in endless convolutions—why, that is something like it.  (source)
    convolutions = complex twists and patterns
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    At the heart of it, magnified by the curved surface, there was a strange, pink, convoluted object that recalled a rose or a sea anemone.  (source)
    convoluted = twisted and folded
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    It [a long strap] passed in many convolutions about my limbs and body,  (source)
    convolutions = twists and folds
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    The striated tongues of rock twisted in such convoluted patterns that the eye had difficulty following a single piece from base to tip, but rather flitted from one coil to the next.  (source)
    convoluted = coiled, twisted and folded
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