to crop up	to appear unexpectedly
underlying	forming the basis for sth
to rig	to manage, to control
surreptitiously	secretly and deceitfully
to prime oneself with sth	to make oneself ready for sth
sloppy	given, delivered in a careless, untidy manner
divine	of God
to be at a standstill	to reach a state of no progress/ not to move
to ruminate on sth	to muse, to meditate on sth
to stifle	to restrain, to suffocate
stifled	suffocated/ extremely bored
to encrypt	to encode
to disambiguate	to remove uncertainty from meaning of sth
ravenous	extremely hungry
cryptic	with a hidden meaning, mysterious
peripatetic	going from place to place, nomadic