We can not go through life knowing everything, even if some act as if they do. Thus it is a common and conventional thing for us to encounter information in our day to day life that we have not heard before or confuses us. So this word comes to ease that:
Obfuscate
Although the word is a verb meaning to confuse it can be remembered in order to cushion that, often unwanted, realisation that indeed we are fallible. By giving you something you do know. It may also be used in a retaliatory context if some one were to intentionally bewilder you. When faced by such a situation a retort remarking on their obfuscatory information or phrase can in turn obfuscate the provocateur if he is unbeknownst to the word's existence.
I hope this post is unconfusing, unbefudling and unobfuscating.
Ed
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