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101threat — [OE] Threat originally meant ‘trouble, oppression’; ‘expression of an intention to do harm’ is a secondary sense, which arose out of the notion of ‘putting pressure’ on someone. It came from a prehistoric base *thraut , *threut , *thrut , which… …
102toil — English has two words toil, one of them now used only in the plural. Toil ‘work’ comes via Anglo Norman toiler ‘stir, agitate, wrangle’ from Latin tudiculāre ‘stir around’. This was derived from tudicula ‘mill for crushing olives’, a diminutive… …
103recondite — [rek′ən dīt΄; ] occas. [ ri kän′dīt΄] adj. [L reconditus, pp. of recondere, to put back, hide < re , back + condere, to put together, store up, hide < con , together + dere < IE base * dhē , to put > DO1] 1. beyond the grasp of the… …
104obscureness — noun 1. the quality of being unclear or abstruse and hard to understand • Syn: ↑obscurity, ↑abstruseness, ↑reconditeness • Ant: ↑clarity (for: ↑obscurity) • …
105recondite — adj. 1 (of a subject or knowledge) abstruse; out of the way; little known. 2 (of an author or style) dealing in abstruse knowledge or allusions; obscure. Derivatives: reconditely adv. reconditeness n. Etymology: L reconditus (as RE , conditus… …
106obstruse — adjective Etymology: Latin obstrusus, MS variant of abstrusus concealed more at abstruse obsolete : abstruse …
107ab|struse´ness — ab|struse «ab STROOS», adjective. hard to understand; difficult: »If you do not master arithmetic, you will find algebra complicated and abstruse. The fields of inquiry run from simple mechanics to abstruse atomic energy (Wall Street Journal).… …
108ab|struse´ly — ab|struse «ab STROOS», adjective. hard to understand; difficult: »If you do not master arithmetic, you will find algebra complicated and abstruse. The fields of inquiry run from simple mechanics to abstruse atomic energy (Wall Street Journal).… …
109ab|struse — «ab STROOS», adjective. hard to understand; difficult: »If you do not master arithmetic, you will find algebra complicated and abstruse. The fields of inquiry run from simple mechanics to abstruse atomic energy (Wall Street Journal). SYNONYM(S):… …
110ab|strus|i|ty — «ab STROO suh tee», noun. 1. no plural abstruse character; obscurity: »The abstrusity of some legal documents baffles most laymen. 2. plural ties. an abstruse point or matter: »... there were criminal lawyers deeply versed in the abstrusities and …
