Muddle
Part of speech: noun
Definition: A mixture; a confusion; a garble.
Part of speech: verb
Definition: To mix together, to mix up; to confuse. To mash slightly for use in a cocktail.
Example sentence: Too often, teachers and professors misrepresent conservative viewpoints, and intentionally muddle what it means to be a conservative.
Mess
Part of speech: noun
Definition: Mass; church service.A quantity of food set on a table at one time; provision of food for a person or party for one meal; also, the food given to a beast at one time.A number of persons who eat together, and for whom food is prepared in common; especially, persons in the military or naval service who eat at the same table.A set of four; — from the old practice of dividing companies into sets of four at dinner.The milk given by a cow at one milking.A disagreeable mixture or confusion of things; hence, a situation resulting from blundering or from misunderstanding; a disorder.A large quantity or number.
Part of speech: verb
Definition: To take meals with a mess.To belong to a mess.To eat (with others).To supply with a mess.
Example sentence: I think you have to let go of this idea that you can be precious about everything, and let it be the abstract mess that it is.