SAT vocabulary
Tortuous
Full of twists and turns; excessively lengthy and complex.
Example
"The tortuous argument was difficult to follow and filled with logical fallacies."
Etymology
Late Middle English: from Old French tortuos or Latin tortuosus, from tortus 'a twisting', from torquere 'to twist'.
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