To parse something is to study it by looking closely at its parts. In grammar and linguistics, parse means "to divide (a sentence) into grammatical parts and identify the parts and their relations to each other."
// The lawyer meticulously parsed the wording of the final contract to be sure that her client would get all that he was asking for.
a bad-tempered, difficult, cantankerous person.
the action, process, or faculty of looking back on things past.
Fuliginous is a formal adjective that is synonymous with sooty; it describes things related to, containing, or producing soot. It can also describe things that are figuratively sooty—that is, dark or murky, as in "fuliginous soul"—as well as things that are dark or sooty in color, from crystals and insects to the plumage of some bird species.
a shifting series of phantasms, illusions, or deceptive appearances, as in a dream or as created by the imagination.
homey; cozy and unpretentious.
Shill is an informal word that is used disapprovingly to mean “to talk about or describe someone or something in a favorable way for pay.” It is usually paired with for.
// It’s very common to see influencers shilling for different brands on their social media accounts.
not able to be proven false, and therefore not scientific.
a mixture of haze and smoke.
Something described as extraneous does not form a necessary part of something else, and may also therefore be considered irrelevant or unimportant (as in “extraneous details”).
// The woman who reported the robbery kept bringing up extraneous facts, such as what she'd had for lunch.