{UAH} WORD OF THE DAY February 7, 2019--abstruse

WORD OF THE DAY February 7, 2019

abstruse    adjective | ub-STROOSS     Definition   : difficult to comprehend : recondite   Scroll down for more about abstruse      TRENDING NOW: suffragette abject bipartisan comity SEE ALL      PEOPLE ARE READING   Try Not to Slip on 'Peel' and 'Peal'       'Ratiocination' — Video Word of the Day 2/6/2019     Coffee? Coffee. Coffee!       'Mettlesome' — Video Word of the Day 2/5/2019         WORD GAMES AND QUIZZES: WEEKLY CHALLENGE   Challenging Vocab Quiz   How many do you know?     PLAY NOW     Nailed this quiz? We have plenty more to try!  TAKE ME THERE         Did You Know?   Look closely at the following Latin verbs, all of which are derived from the verb trudere ("to push, thrust"): extrudere, intrudere, obtrudere, protrudere. Remove the last two letters of each of these and you get an English descendant whose meaning involves pushing or thrusting. Another trudere offspring, abstrudere, meaning "to push away" or "to conceal," gave English abstrude, meaning "to thrust away," but that 17th-century borrowing has fallen out of use. An abstrudere descendant that has survived is abstruse, an adjective that recalls the meaning of its Latin parent abstrūsus, meaning "concealed."     Examples of ABSTRUSE   "Today's physics breakthroughs tend to be so abstruse that summarizing them is like trying to explain the financial-derivatives market to a three-year-old." — The National Review, 16 Apr. 2018   "Before the Apple Macintosh, the first computer to popularize point-and-click, people using home computers had to familiarize themselves with abstruse text commands." — Clive Thompson, The New York Times, 18 Nov. 2018   Name That Synonym   Fill in the blanks to complete a synonym of abstruse: t _ _ _ s _ e _ d _ _ t _ l.   VIEW THE ANSWER           WORD OF THE YEAR 2018     Justice + 10 more   Read why justice is our Word of the Year, plus lodestar, epiphany, pansexual, and 7 more top words!   SEE THE FULL LIST            MORE WORD FUN:     WORD GAMES          TRENDING NOW          WORDS AT PLAY      FOLLOW US:

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