Learn English – “Misuse” vs. “Abuse”

The three verbs have almost the same meaning. So what is the difference? The only difference is that the three Latin verbs come from three different simplex verbs (verbs without a prefix).

contain comes from Latin ten-é:re meaning to hold. A whole can "hold" several elements together. Latin con- meaning together.

include comes from Latin claud-ere/clud-ere to close. To include meaning to close in. A whole can "close in" several elements just as a city wall closes in a lot of different buildings. English to close is related with the third stem claus-um of claudere.

To consist comes from Latin si-st-ere, itself a derivation of Latin stare/stere meaning to stand. The Latin prefix con- often means together. So if you say "The whole consists of several parts" you actually say "Several parts stand together and form a whole".

So all three verbs express the same meaning. But language can express one idea with different words.

While these are three unrelated words, they share some characteristics: all are produced by modifying existing words in particular ways that are fairly standard.

You're right that a documenter would be one who documents; in general, adding "-r" or "-er" to a verb very often means someone who often does that verb. Your automated spell-checker doesn't have enough of a vocabulary to tell that automatically, though.

Your intuition about "web-mistress" being related to "webmaster" is also correct. But in compound words using "master", substituting "mistress" is usually not going to make anyone* think of the modern slang usage of "mistress" on its own, since the other words qualify the meaning to be a particular sort of master or mistress… and that almost always means starting from the most basic and literal sense of the word, which is still generally known by native speakers. So this coined word means nothing other than a female webmaster. (It's unlikely to be a formal job title; rather, it's most likely a somewhat whimsical title taken on by the lady herself. This sort of playful self-naming is fairly common among geeks, especially those who work more or less independent of conventional job structures.)

"Cabalesque" has a rather uncommon productive suffix, "-esque" (which means "like" or "in the manner of", and is often separated with a hyphen to make it easier to distinguish). Given that, and the way "cabal" can mean "a small group of people who work together secretly" (MW), "cabalesque knowledge" means something like "cryptic knowledge like that of some old secret societies, carefully isolated from outsiders". (Per Nelson, it can especially refer to highly specialized technical knowledge that has never been shared with those outside a small group, whether intentionally trying to keep it secret or simply not putting effort into sharing that knowledge.)

_{*Except amateur comedians on the Internet, anyway.}