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recondite
1) profound, abstruse, hard to understand; 2) obscure, little known
Don't be too swift to pronounce a passage recondite; it may be nonsensical.
Latin root words: reconditus, recondita, reconditum - put away; hidden, concealed; recondo, recondere, recondidi, reconditus - to put away, store; to hide; condo, condere, condidi, conditus - to found, establish; to put away (where it will be safe), store; to hide
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