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charlatan
a person who pretends or claims to have more knowledge or skill than he or she possesses; quack.
quacksalver
kwak-sal-ver
a person who pretends or claims to have more knowledge or skill than he or she possesses; charlatan ; a quack doctor
melliferous
yielding or producing honey.
snafu
1. a badly confused or ridiculously muddled situation: A ballot snafu in the election led to a recount.

adjective:
1. Rare. in disorder; out of control; chaotic: a snafu scheme that simply won't work.

verb:
1. Rare. to throw into disorder; muddle:
aeolian
ee-oh-lee-uhn
1. (usually lowercase) of or caused by the wind; wind-blown.
2. pertaining to Aeolus, or to the winds in general
logomachy
loh-gom-uh-kee
1. a dispute about or concerning words.
2. an argument or debate marked by the reckless or incorrect use of words; meaningless battle of words.
3. a game played with cards, each bearing one letter, with which words are formed
spang
directly ; exactly
quibble
1. to equivocate. (to avoid committing yourself in what your'e saying...to not answer something directly, with the intent to deceive)

noun:
1. an instance of the use of ambiguous, prevaricating, or irrelevant language or arguments to evade a point at issue.
2. the general use of such arguments.
3. petty or carping criticism; a minor objection
carp
to find fault or complain querulously or unreasonably; be niggling in criticizing; cavil: to carp at minor errors.
cavil
verb (used without object)
1.
to raise irritating and trivial objections; find fault with unnecessarily (usually followed by at or about ): He finds something to cavil at in everything I say.
verb (used with object)
2.
to oppose by inconsequential, frivolous, or sham objections: to cavil each item of a proposed agenda.
noun
3.
a trivial and annoying objection.
4.
the raising of such objections.
equivocate
to use ambiguous or unclear expressions, usually to avoid commitment or in order to mislead; prevaricate or hedge