Today's Word "tortuous"
Published in Vocabulary
tortuous \TOR-choo-us\ (adjective) - 1 : Marked by repeated turns and bends; as, "a tortuous road up the mountain." 2 : Not straightforward; devious; as, "his tortuous reasoning." 3 : Highly involved or intricate; as, "tortuous legal procedures."
"The movie's climactic scene featured two high performance cars chasing each other up an icy, tortuous mountain path, peppered with obstacles both man-made and natural."
Tortuous is from Latin tortuosus, from tortus, "a twisting," from the past participle of torquere, "to twist."
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