Japanese edit

For pronunciation and definitions of きょくせつ – see the following entries.
曲折
[noun] a thing which twists and turns
[noun] a change in state
[noun] complicated circumstances; the details of said circumstances
[verb] to twist and turn
[verb] to change state
曲説
[noun] [from 1768] a bent or biased explanation or theory of something: a distortion, a twisted account of something
[verb] [from 1768] to explain or theorize about something in a bent or biased manner: to distort or twist a description of something
(This term, きょくせつ, is the hiragana spelling of the above terms.)