clarify, clear, clear up, crystallize, elucidate, enlighten, illuminate, shed light on, sort out, straighten out

arcane, esoteric, abstruse, inscrutable, mundane, innocuous, indecipherable, nebulous, obtuse, recondite, unremarkable, inconsequential, prosaic, idiosyncratic, oddball, unpronounceable, trivial, inconspicuous, unexceptional, unheralded, incomprehensible, odd, unprepossessing, incongruous, banal, quirky, perplexing, tangential, peculiar, unimportant, unsung, unknown, undistinguished, uncontroversial, baffling, hidden, cryptic, unpoetic, unobjectionable, unusual, nonliterary, offbeat, dubious, puzzling, undecipherable, convoluted, insignificant, inartistic, unspecific, compendious, improbable, ambiguous, irksome, intriguing, enigmatic, murkiest, undiscovered, unfamiliar, anachronistic, opaque, latinate, cryptozoological, unrecognized, contentless, uncelebrated, impenetrable, nondescript, tawdrier, wonky, inoffensive, unmentionable, mysterious, vague, unglamorous, ephemeral, euphonious, mystifying, unmemorable, ironic, lexicographical, unobvious, illuminating, unmapped, uninteresting, unfashionable, comprehendible, calendrical, obvious, sparsest, uninformative, amusing, bewildering, byzantine, dialectal, decipherable, unsavory, bizarre, prolix, eccentric, pronounceable, unrecorded, unlovely, aeons, affluents, allegories, alleys, allusiveness, archaisms, beginnings, beyond, bombast, bookshops, brevity, brooke, buddhas, bugs, cabals, cellars, circumlocutions, compassion, conventicles, crucifixions, same, littleknown, obfcure, obscurer, strange, difficult, interesting, troublesome, easiest, familiar, known, obscurest

eclipse, muddy, mystify, overshadow, shade, shade off, shadow

., bedim, cabalist, class pauropoda, cryptic, cryptical, damp, dampen, darkling, deaden, decipherer, deep, delphic oracle, discernment, form division, form family, form genus, gloss, hole-and-corner, inscrutable, kabbalist, mysterious, mysticism, mystifying, obfuscate, obscurantism, obscurely, obscurity, officialese, oracle, oracle of apollo, oracle of delphi, overcloud, pauropoda, perceptiveness, rubric, shakily, smokescreen, smoke screen, soft-pedal, temple of apollo, veil

alter, change, conceal, darken, hide

apart, becloud, bedim, befog, benight, blot out, blur, cloud, concealed, confuse, dark, dishonorable, fog, haze over, hidden, hide, incomprehensible, inconspicuous, indeterminate, inglorious, invisible, isolated, mist, obliterate, overcloud, unclear, uncomprehensible, unconnected, unknown, unnoticeable, unsung, vague