Reading Comprehension Based on SBI PO Prelims 2017

Finally the most challenging and toughest exam SBI PO has started today, 29 April 2017. In the English section, there were total 30 questions. Reading Comprehension 10 Q, Cloze test 10 Q and Phrase replacement 10 Q. In this post, we will discuss questions related to 'Reading Comprehension'. These types of questions are based on the Reading habits and vocabulary. Students are advised to revise vocabulary and Read a lot and practice RCs daily. We have already provided Important Phrasal verbs for SBI PO and other bank exams as well. 

Directions (1-10): Read the following Passage, and answer the questions based on this passage.

Despite the best efforts of those responsible for preventing fraud, one inevitable reality remains: “fraud happens.” Because fraud and misconduct can occur at various levels in any organization, it is essential that appropriate preventive and detective techniques are in place. Although fraud prevention and detection are related concepts, they are not the same. While prevention encompasses policies, procedures, training, and communication, detection involves activities and programs designed to identify fraud or misconduct that is occurring or has occurred. Although preventive measures cannot ensure that fraud will not be committed, they are the first line of defense in minimizing fraud risk. This section of the guide will cover preventive techniques. Detective techniques will be covered in Section 4.

One key to prevention is making personnel throughout the organization aware of the fraud risk management program, including the types of fraud and misconduct that may occur. This awareness should enforce the notion that all of the techniques established in the program are real and will be enforced. The ongoing communication efforts could provide information on the potential disciplinary, criminal, and civil actions that the organization could take against the individual.With this in mind, prevention and deterrence are interrelated concepts. If effective preventive controls are in place, working, and well-known to potential fraud perpetrators, they serve as strong deterrents to those who might otherwise be tempted to commit fraud. Fear of getting caught is always a strong deterrent. Effective preventive controls are, therefore, strong deterrence controls.

The system of internal controls in an organization is designed to address inherent business risks. The business risks are identified in the enterprise risk assessment protocol, and the controls associated with each risk are noted. COSO’s Enterprise Risk Management–Integrated Framework describes the essential ERM components, principles, and concepts for all organizations, regardless of size.

Establishing internal controls may not address all of an organization’s fraud risks. Fraud risks, although a form of business risk, necessitate specific controls to mitigate them, which makes an organization’s fraud risk assessment process essential to fraud prevention. In addition to implementing fraud preventive controls, it is important that the organization assess and continuously monitor their operational effectiveness to help prevent fraud from occurring.

Prevention is the most proactive fraud-fighting measure. The design and implementation of control activities should be a coordinated effort spearheaded by management with an assembled cast of employees. Collectively, this cross section of the organization should be able to address all of the identified risks, design and implement the control activities, and ensure that the techniques used are adequate to prevent fraud from occurring in accordance with the organization’s risk tolerance. The ongoing success of any fraud prevention program depends on its continuous communication and reinforcement. Stressing the existence of a fraud prevention program through a wide variety of media — posters on bulletin boards, flyers included with invoices and vendor payments, and articles in internal and external communications — gets the message out to both internal and external communities that the organization is committed to preventing and deterring fraud.

Among the many elements in fraud prevention are HR procedures, authority limits, and transaction level procedures. An organization’s HR function can play an important role in fraud prevention by implementing the following procedures. A key business and fraud risk in any organization lies in the people hired to operate the business and promoted into positions of trust and authority. For that reason, it is important to know employees in order to evaluate their credentials and competence, match skills to the job requirements, and be aware of any issues of personal integrity that may impact their suitability for the position. Much can be learned about an individual through confirmation of work history and education presented on a job application or résumé or in follow-up with references provided. It is possible to find false or embellished information or undisclosed history and reputation that may represent increased, and possibly unacceptable, risk.

While the organization should establish procedures to obtain sufficient information to assess a job applicant or promotion candidate, the nature and extent of information that can be requested from a prospective or existing employee or obtained independently is governed by applicable laws and regulations. Further or enhanced background checking for criminal record or personal financial situation may only be possible upon receiving the individual’s consent. Legal counsel should be sought to advise on what background information can and cannot be obtained and the appropriate procedures to follow.

Background checks should also be performed on new and existing suppliers, customers, and business partners to identify any issues of financial health, ownership, reputation, and integrity that may represent an unacceptable risk to the business.

Q1. According to the passage, what is the fundamental difference between fraud prevention and fraud detection?

(a) Background checks should also be performed on new and existing suppliers, customers, and business partners to identify any issues of financial health, ownership, reputation, and integrity that may represent an unacceptable risk to the business.

(b) prevention means to stop something from happening, while detection means to figure out the cause of an action

(c) prevention is not to allow data exchange and detection is to identify the problem

(d) prevention encompasses policies, procedures, training, and communication, detection involves activities and programs designed to identify fraud

(e) None of these

Q2. What will be appropriate title for this passage?

(a) corruption and its repercussions

(b) fraud: analysis and recommendations

(c) fraud: prevention and detection

(d) corruption and hierarchy

(e) None of these

Q3. How the HR department of an organization can play vital role in the prevention of fraud in the company?

(a) by announcing yearly appraisal and spreading the goodwill among the employees

(b) by highlighting the activities that are unfavorable in terms of finance

(c) by evaluating employee’s credentials and competence, and being aware of any issues of personal integrity, confirmation of work history and education presented on a job application

(d) the company can hire a detective to understand the fraud patterns

(e) None of these

Q4. What is the strong deterrent for fraud according to this passage?

(a) the fear of getting caught

(b) the fear of not getting paid

(c) the feeling of being marginalized

(d) the HR policies and its repercussions

(e) None of these

Q5. Apart from the employees, who are the other entities that have been suggested to keep a watch on for fraud purposes?

(a) the lower-class employees and the transport department of the organization

(b) on new and existing suppliers, customers, and business partners to identify any issues of fraud

(c) the foreign members for hawala money and other transactions

(d) high echelon and lower strata of the organization

(e) None of these

Q6. In the following question, find the word that is most similar in the meaning to the word “mitigate”?

(a) benefactor

(b) attenuate

(c) benevolent

(d) vitriolic

(e) vituperate

Q7. In the following question, find the word that is most similar in the meaning to the word “Notion”?

(a) impression

(b) chagrin

(c) chauvinistic

(d) Felonious

(e) charlatan

Q8. In the following question, find the word that is opposite in the meaning to the word “prevention”?

(a) despotic

(b) harbinger

(c) fortuitously

(d) immaculate

(e) permissive

Q9. In the following question, find the word that is opposite in the meaning to the word “embellished”?

(a) accredit

(b) unaccredited

(c) inadmissible

(d) increment

(e) simplify

Q10. In the following question, find the word that is opposite in the meaning to the word “inevitable”?

(a) malapropos

(b) opportunely

(c) sequestrate

(d) uncertain

(e) commandeer

Solutions

S1. Ans.(d)

Sol. It is mentioned in the passage that prevention encompasses policies, procedures, training, and communication, while detection involves activities and programs designed to identify fraud.

S2. Ans.(c)

Sol. "fraud: prevention and detection" will be apt title for the given passage.

S3. Ans.(c)

Sol. The HR department of an organization can play vital role in the prevention of fraud in the company "by evaluating employee’s credentials and competence, and being aware of any issues of personal integrity, confirmation of work history and education presented on a job application".

S4. Ans.(a)

Sol. The fear of getting caught is the strong deterrent for fraud according to this passage.

S5. Ans.(b)

Sol. According to this passage, The company need to keep a watch on "new and existing suppliers, customers, and business partners to identify any issues of fraud".

S6. Ans.(b)

Sol. mitigate-lessen the gravity of (an offence or mistake).

attenuate-reduce the force, effect, or value of.

Hence, mitigate and attenuate are synonyms.

S7. Ans.(a)

Sol. notion -a conception of or belief about something.

impression-an idea, feeling, or opinion about something or someone, especially one formed without conscious thought or on the basis of little evidence.

hence, notion and impression are synonyms.

S8. Ans.(e)

Sol. prevention -the action of stopping something from happening or arising.

permissive-allowing or characterized by great or excessive freedom of behaviour.

prevention and permissive are antonyms to each other.

S9. Ans.(e)

Sol. embellished -make (a statement or story) more interesting by adding extra details that are often untrue.

simplify and embellish are antonyms in meaning.

S10. Ans.(d)

Sol.  inevitable-certain to happen; unavoidable.

uncertain-not able to be relied on; not known or definite.

hence, inevitable and uncertain are antonyms.

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Reading Comprehension Based on SBI PO Prelims 2017

Dear Aspirants, Finally the most challenging and toughest exam SBI PO has started today, 29 April 2017. In the English section, there were total 30 questions. Reading Comprehension 10 Q, Cloze test 10 Q and Phrase replacement 10 Q. In this post, we will discuss questions related to 'Reading Comprehension'. These types of questions are based on the Reading habits and vocabulary. Students are advised to revise vocabulary and Read a lot and practice RCs daily. We have already provided Important Phrasal verbs for SBI PO and other bank exams as well. 

Directions (1-10): Read the following paragraph. Some of the words have been highlighted in bold. Answer the questions based on this paragraph.

The internet has become the integral part of today’s generation of people; from communicating through instant messages and emails to banking, travelling, studying and shopping, internet has touched every aspect of life. With the growing use of the internet by people, protecting important information has become a necessity.  A computer that is not having appropriate security controls can be infected with malicious logic and thus any type of information can be accessed in moments. Number of infected Web Pages and malicious websites can be seen every day that infects the computer and allow hackers to gain illegal access to other computer systems.

Hacking of important data, network outages, computer viruses and other cyber related threats affect our lives that range from minor inconvenience to serious incidents. Cyber threats can be caused due to negligence and vulnerabilities, or unintentional accidents. The main objectives of such type of system attackers or hackers are to steal confidential information, to make illegal monetary transactions, to destroy or to change data and the like. System attackers can be terrorists, crackers or recreational hackers. They have a variety of tools that can harm or infect the computer; usually they use malicious logic or virus to gain unauthorized access to a computer. Opening email attachments that carry the virus, clicking malicious links or websites or unintentionally downloading a dangerous program are common ways through which a computer can be infected and data can be stolen.

As the number of data networks, digital applications, as well as internet and mobile users are growing, so do the chances of cyber exploitation and cyber crimes. Even a small mistake in securing data or bad social networking can prove to be extremely dangerous. If accounts are not properly secured, it makes easier for hackers or unauthorized users to spread viruses or social engineered attacks that are designed to steal data and even money. Such types of issues highlight the need for cyber security as an essential approach in protecting and preventing data from being used inappropriately.

In simple language, Cyber Security or Information technology security means protecting data, networks, programs and other information from unauthorized or unintended access, destruction or change. It encompasses all the mechanisms and processes that protect digital equipment, information and records from illegal or unintended access, manipulation or destruction.

In today’s dynamic environment, cyber security has become vital for individuals and families, as well as organizations (such as military, government, business houses, educational and financial institutions, corporations and others) that collect and store a wide range of confidential data on computers and transmit that to other computers across different networks. For families, protection of children and family members from cyber crime has become substantially important. For an individual, protecting information

that could impact social life as well as personal finance is essential. The internet has provided a wide array of learning opportunities, but there are risks too. Photos, videos and other personal information shared by an individual on social networking sites such as Facebook, Twitter can be inappropriately used by others may lead to serious and even life-threatening incidents. Social networking sites have become the most popular medium for sharing information and connecting with other people. But these sites have created varied opportunities for cybercrimes, compromised personal identities and information leakage. Therefore, it is important for individuals to understand how to protect against cyber threats, and must also comprehend the difference between virtual and real world. One should learn how to protect computers and personal information from being hacked and should engage in appropriate online behaviour in order to eliminate changes of cyber threats and thereby creating a safer online environment.

Q1. According to the author what does the cyber security means?

(a) Cyber Security means the dispersion of important data and devise a structural engineering that allow easy flow of information

(b) Cyber Security means protecting data, networks, programs and other information from unauthorized or unintended access, destruction or change.

(c) Cyber Security means the blocking of all the websites that are available in free domain

(d) Cyber Security means the Hacking of important data, network outages, computer viruses and other cyber related threats affect our lives that range from minor inconvenience to serious incidents.

(e) None of the above

Q2. According to the author, what is the main reasons behind cyber threats?

(a) the unknown person with malice 

(b) due to intelligence, veneration and intentional threats.

(c) due to negligence and vulnerabilities, or unintentional accidents.

(d) by communicating through instant messages and emails to banking, travelling, studying and shopping on internet

(e) None of the above

Q3. What is the downside of Social media, according to the author? 

(a) the long hours usage of social media could affect an individual mentally and become the victim of depression

(b) by sharing sensitive information, one can be vulnerable to sudden outburst of emotions

(c) information shared by an individual for socializing purposes can be distorted and can be used for malignant purpose.

(d) the social media owners can steal the information and sell this information for monetary purposes

(e) None of the above

Q4.  According to this passage, how the virus gets into the computers?

(a) by saving data and clicking on the desktop

(b) by opening a document file in the search history

(c) by texting online and receiving files on social media platforms

(d) Opening email attachments that carry the virus, clicking malicious links or websites or unintentionally downloading a dangerous program

(e) None of the above

Q5. What will be the apt title for this passage?

(a) life hacks

(b) Cybercrime and hacking

(c) technology and its advantages

(d) technological advances

(e) The impact of social media

Q6. In the following question, find the word that is most similar in the meaning to the word ‘malicious’?

(a) benefactor

(b) benign

(c) benevolent

(d) vitriolic

(e) vituperate

Q7. In the following question, find the word that is most similar in the meaning to the word “illegal”?

(a) symposium

(b) chagrin

(c) chauvinistic

(d) Felonious

(e) charlatan

Q8. In the following question, find the word that is opposite in the meaning to the word “unauthorized”?

(a) accredit

(b) unaccredited

(c) inadmissible

(d) increment

(e) liaison

Q9. In the following question, find the word that is opposite in the meaning to the word “appropriate”?

(a) malapropos

(b) opportunely

(c) sequestrate

(d) usurp

(e) commandeer

Q10. In the following question, find the word that is most similar in the meaning to the word “unintentional”?

(a) despotic

(b) harbinger

(c) fortuitously

(d) immaculate

(e) innocuous

Solutions

S1. Ans.(b)

Sol. It is mentioned in the passage that Cyber Security means protecting data, networks, programs and other information from unauthorized or unintended access, destruction or change.

S2. Ans.(c)

Sol. The reason mentioned in the paragraph for cyber threats is “due to negligence and vulnerabilities, or unintentional accidents.”

S3. Ans.(c)

Sol. information shared by an individual for socializing purposes can be distorted and can be used for malignant purpose.

S4. Ans.(d)

Sol. Opening email attachments that carry the virus, clicking malicious links or websites or unintentionally downloading a dangerous program

S5. Ans.(b)

Sol. The appropriate title for the given passage would be ‘Cybercrime and hacking’.

S6. Ans.(d)

Sol. malicious- characterized by malice; intending or intended to do harm.

vitriolic-filled with bitter criticism or malice.

hence, these two words are synonyms to each other.

S7. Ans.(d)

Sol. Felonious-relating to or involved in crime.

hence illegal and Felonious are synonyms to each other.

S8. Ans.(a)

Sol. accredit-(of an official body) give authority or sanction to (someone or something) when recognized standards have been met.

hence, accredit and unauthorized are antonyms to each other.

S9. Ans.(a)

Sol. malapropos-in an inopportune or inappropriate way.

hence, malapropos and appropriate are antonyms.

S10. Ans.(c)

Sol. fortuitously- Happening by accident or chance. Hence, fortuitously and unintentional are synonyms to each other.

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Reading Comprehension For SBI PO 2017

Directions (1-8): Read the following passage carefully and answer these questions. Certain words have been printed in bold to help you locate them while answering some of the questions.

Current feminist theory, in validating women’s own stories of their experience, has encouraged scholars of women’s history to view the use of women’s oral narratives as the methodology, next to the use of women’s written autobiography, that brings historians closest to the “reality” of women’s lives. Such narratives, unlike most standard histories, represent experience from the perspective of women, affirm the importance of women’s contributions, and furnish present-day women with historical continuity that is essential to their identity, individually and collectively.

Scholars of women’s history should, however, be as cautious about accepting oral narratives at face value as they already are about written memories. Oral narratives are no more likely than are written narratives to provide a disinterested commentary on events or people. Moreover, the stories people tell to explain themselves are shaped by narrative devices and storytelling conventions, as well as by other cultural and historical factors, in ways that the storytellers may be unaware of. The political rhetoric of a particular era, for example, may influence women’s interpretations of the significance of their experience. Thus, a woman who views the Second World War as pivotal in increasing the social acceptance of women’s paid work outside the home may reach that conclusion partly and unwittingly because of wartime rhetoric encouraging a positive view of women’s participation in such work.

Q1. The passage is primarily concerned with

(a) contrasting the benefits of one methodology with the benefits of another

(b) describing the historical origins and inherent drawbacks of a particular methodology

(c) discussing the appeal of a particular methodology and some concerns about its use

(d) showing that some historians’ adoption of a particular methodology has led to criticism of recent historical scholarship

(e) analyzing the influence of current feminist views on women’s interpretations of their experience

Q2. According to the passage, which of the following shapes the oral narratives of women storytellers?

(a) The conventions for standard histories in the culture in which a woman storyteller lives

(b) The conventions of storytelling in the culture in which a woman storyteller lives

(c) A woman storyteller’s experience with distinctive traditions of storytelling developed by the woman in her family of origin

(d) The cultural expectations and experiences of those who listen to oral narratives

(e) A woman storyteller’s familiarity with the stories that members of other groups in her culture tell to explain themselves

Q3. The author of the passage would be most likely to make which of the following recommendations to scholars of women’s history?

(a) They should take into account their own life experiences when interpreting the oral accounts of women’s historical experiences.

(b) They should assume that the observations made in women’s oral narratives are believed by the intended audience of the story.

(c) They should treat skeptically observations reported in oral narratives unless the observations can be confirmed in standard histories.

(d) They should consider the cultural and historical context in which an oral narrative was created before arriving at an interpretation of such a narrative.

(e) They should rely on information gathered from oral narratives only when equivalent information is not available in standard histories.

Q4. Which of the following best describes the function of the last sentence of the passage?

(a) It describes an event that historians view as crucial in recent women’s history.

(b) It provides an example of how political rhetoric may influence the interpretations of experience reported in women’s oral narratives.

(c) It provides an example of an oral narrative that inaccurately describes women’s experience during a particular historical period.

(d) It illustrates the point that some women are more aware than others of the social forces that shape their oral narratives.

(e) It identifies the historical conditions that led to the social acceptance of women’s paid work outside the home.

Q5. According to the passage, scholars of women’s history should refrain from doing which of the following?

(a) Relying on traditional historical sources when women’s oral narratives are unavailable

(b) Focusing on the influence of political rhetoric on women’s perceptions to the exclusion of other equally important factors

(c) Attempting to discover the cultural and historical factors that influence the stories women tell

(d) Assuming that the conventions of women’s written autobiographies are similar to the conventions of women’s oral narratives

(e) Accepting women’s oral narratives less critically than they accept women’s written histories

Q6. According to the passage, each of the following is a difference between women’s oral narratives and most standard histories EXCEPT:

(a) Women’s oral histories validate the significance of women’s achievements.

(b) Women’s oral histories depict experience from the point of view of women.

(c) Women’s oral histories acknowledge the influence of well-known women.

(d) Women’s oral histories present today’s women with a sense of their historical relationship to women of the past.

(e) Women’s oral histories are crucial to the collective identity of today’s women.

Directions (7-8): Choose the word which is most nearly the same in meaning as the word printed in bold as used in the passage.

Q7. Rhetoric

(a) Mandatory

(b) magniloquence

(c) Incapable

(d) Lazy

(e) Officious

Q8. Pivotal

(a) vital

(b) Entreaties

(c) Ruses

(d) Conspiracies

(e) Assurances

Directions (9-15): Read the following passage carefully and answer these questions. Certain words have been printed in bold to help you locate them while answering some of the questions.

In recent years, teachers of introductory courses in Asian American studies have been facing a dilemma nonexistent a few decades ago, when hardly any texts in that field were available. Today, excellent anthologies and other introductory texts exist, and books on individual Asian American nationality groups and on general issues important for Asian American are published almost weekly. Even professors who are experts in the field find it difficult to decide which of these to assign to students; nonexperts who teach in related areas and are looking for writings for and by Asian Americans to include in survey courses are in an even worse position.

A complicating factor has been the continuing lack of specialized one-volume reference works on Asian Americans, such as biographical dictionaries or desktop encyclopedias. Such works would enable students taking.  Asian American studies courses (and professors in related fields) to look up basic information on Asian American individuals, institutions, history, and culture without having to wade through mountains of primary source material. In addition, given such works, Asian American studies professors might feel more free to include more challenging Asian American material in their introductory reading lists, since good reference works allow students to acquire on their own the background information necessary to interpret difficult or unfamiliar material.

Q9. The author of the passage is primarily concerned with doing which of the following?

(a) Recommending a methodology

(b) Describing a course of study

(c) Discussing a problem

(d) Evaluating a past course of action

(e) Responding to a criticism

Q10. The “dilemma” mentioned in the passage can best be characterized as being caused by the necessity to make a choice when faced with a

(a) lack of acceptable alternatives

(b) lack of strict standards of evaluating alternatives

(c) preponderance of bad alternatives as compared to good

(d) multitude of different alternatives

(e) large number of alternatives that are nearly identical in content

Q11. The passage suggest that the factor mentioned in the passage complicates professors’ attempts to construct introductory reading lists for courses in Asian American studies in which of the following ways?

(a) By making it difficult for professors to identify primary source material and to obtain standard information on Asian American history and culture

(b) By preventing professors from identifying excellent anthologies and introductory texts in the field that are both recent and understandable to students

(c) By preventing professors for adequately evaluating the quality of the numerous texts currently being published in the field

(d) By making it more necessary for professors to select readings for their courses that are not too challenging for students unfamiliar with Asian American history and culture

(e) By making it more likely that the readings professors assign to students in their courses will be drawn solely from primary sources

Q12. The passage implies that which of the following was true of introductory courses in Asian American studies a few decades ago?

(a) The range of different textbooks that could be assigned for such courses was extremely limited.

(b) The texts assigned as readings in such courses were often not very challenging for students.

(c) Students often complained about the texts assigned to them in such courses.

(d) Such courses were offered only at schools whose libraries were rich in primary sources.

(e) Such courses were the only means then available by which people in the United States could acquire knowledge of the field.

Q13. According to the passage, the existence of good one-volume reference works about Asian Americans could result in

(a) increased agreement among professors of Asian American studies regarding the quality of the sources available in their field

(b) an increase in the number of students signing up for introductory courses in Asian American studies

(c) increased accuracy in writings that concern Asian American history and culture

(d) the use of introductory texts about Asian American history and culture in courses outside the field of Asian American studies

(e) the inclusion of a wider range of Asian American material in introductory reading lists in Asian American studies

Directions (14-15): Choose the word/phrase which is most opposite in meaning of the word printed in bold as used in the passage.

Q14. Specialized

(a) Dearth

(b) Missing

(c) Superfluous

(d) Sufficient

(e) generic

Q15. Interpret

(a) Ranked

(b) Unqualified for

(c) Lacked

(d) Inept at

(e) obfuscate

Solutions

S1. Ans.(c) 

Sol. discussing the appeal of a particular methodology and some concerns about its use

S2. Ans.(b) 

Sol. The conventions of storytelling in the culture in which a woman storyteller lives

S3. Ans.(d) 

Sol. They should consider the cultural and historical context in which an oral narrative was created before arriving at an interpretation of such a narrative.

S4. Ans.(b) 

Sol. It provides an example of how political rhetoric may influence the interpretations of experience reported in women’s oral narratives.

S5. Ans.(e) 

Sol. Accepting women’s oral narratives less critically than they accept women’s written histories

S6. Ans.(c) 

Sol. Women’s oral histories acknowledge the influence of well-known women.

S7. Ans.(b) 

Sol. rhetoric- language designed to have a persuasive or impressive effect, but which is often regarded as lacking in sincerity or meaningful content.

magniloquence-use of high-flown language.

S8. Ans.(a) 

Sol. pivotal- of crucial importance in relation to the development or success of something else.

S9. Ans.(c) 

Sol. Discussing a problem

S10. Ans.(d) 

Sol.  multitude of different alternatives

S11. Ans.(d) 

Sol.  By making it more necessary for professors to select readings for their courses that are not too challenging for students unfamiliar with Asian American history and culture

S12. Ans.(a) 

Sol.  The range of different textbooks that could be assigned for such courses was extremely limited.

S13. Ans.(e) 

Sol.  the inclusion of a wider range of Asian American material in introductory reading lists in Asian American studies

S14. Ans.(e) 

Sol.  specialized- used by or intended for experts in a particular field of knowledge

S15. Ans.(e) 

Sol.  interpret-to make plain or understandable

obfuscate-to make (something) more difficult to understand

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