• convoluted
• sophisticated
• alienation
• otherness
• altercation
• docile
• subservient
• grapple
• radical counterpoint
• desolation
• vindictive
• corroborate
  • confirm or give support to (a statement, theory, or finding).

"the witness had corroborated the boy's account of the attack"

• faux pas (embarrassing blunder in social setting)