Vocabulary: Of What Happened To A Prosaic Submarine
forensic
pertaining to, connected with, or used in courts of law or public discussion and debate.
Mex: The forensic data have been declassified for use in the public court.
quagmire
a situation from which extrication is very difficult
Mex: The quagmire was that, they were stuck in the seafloor and nobody knew where.
extricate
To release from an entanglement or difficulty; disengage.
get out of situation; relieve of responsibility
Mex: They had to be extricated from the eldritch seaweeds all over the submarine.
preclude
1.to prevent the presence, existence, or occurrence of; make impossible
2.to exclude or debar from something
: The insufficiency of the evidence precludes a conviction.
: His physical disability precludes an athletic career for him.
Mex: The lack of knowledgeable engineers precludes the crew from fixing the submarine.
prosaic
1. commonplace or dull; matter-of-fact or unimaginative.
2. of or having the character or form of prose rather than poetry.
Mex: Most submarines are of rather prosaic design.
abstruse
hard to understand; recondite; esoteric
The submarine's machinery design is too abstruse for the neophyte technicians to fix it.
recondite
1. dealing with very profound, difficult, or abstruse subject matter: a recondite treatise.
2. beyond ordinary knowledge or understanding; esoteric: recondite principles.
3. little known; obscure: a recondite fact.
Mex: Only the chief engineer knows the submarines recondite repair schematics; He's dead.
suffuse
to overspread with or as with a liquid, color, etc.
Mex: The chief engineer's body was found dead, suffused with strange goo all over his body.