| verb | curl, wind, or twist together |
| verb | practice sophistry; change the meaning of or be vague about in order to mislead or deceive “Don't twist my words” |
| adjective | rolled longitudinally upon itself “a convolute petal” |
| adjective | highly complex or intricate and occasionally devious; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; - Sir Walter Scott “the Byzantine tax structure” |
| convolution | noun | the action of coiling or twisting or winding together |
| twist | noun | an interpretation of a text or action |
| twisting | noun | the act of distorting something so it seems to mean something it was not intended to mean |
| sophistication | noun | a deliberately invalid argument displaying ingenuity in reasoning in the hope of deceiving someone |
| knottiness | noun | puzzling complexity |
| tortuousness | noun | puzzling complexity |