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recondite
 
SYLLABICATION:rec·on·dite
PRONUNCIATION:  rkn-dt, r-kndt
ADJECTIVE:1. Not easily understood; abstruse. See synonyms at ambiguous. 2. Concerned with or treating something abstruse or obscure: recondite scholarship. 3. Concealed; hidden.
ETYMOLOGY:Latin reconditus, past participle of recondere, to put away : re-, re- + condere, to put together, preserve; see dh- in Appendix I.
OTHER FORMS:recon·ditely —ADVERB
recon·diteness —NOUN
 
 
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