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Recondite

[rə-KAHN-diyt]

Part of speech: adjective

Origin: Latin, mid-17th century

1.

(Of a subject or knowledge) Little known; abstruse.

Examples of Recondite in a sentence

"The advanced textbook contained recondite information that was hard for beginning students to understand."

"It shouldn't take someone with recondite knowledge to fix this."

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