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  • 41Obscurantism — (French: obscurantisme, from the Latin obscurans, “darkening”) is the practice of deliberately preventing the facts or the full details of some matter from becoming known. There are two, common, historical and intellectual, denotations: 1)… …

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  • 42obscure — 1. adjective 1) the truth is that many aspects of a war s outcome remain obscure for years Syn: unclear, uncertain, unknown, in doubt, doubtful, dubious, mysterious, hazy, vague, indeterminate, concealed, hidden Ant: clear …

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  • 43abstruseness — noun 1. the quality of being unclear or abstruse and hard to understand (Freq. 1) • Syn: ↑obscureness, ↑obscurity, ↑reconditeness • Ant: ↑clarity (for: ↑obscurity) …

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  • 44reconditeness — noun 1. the quality of being unclear or abstruse and hard to understand • Syn: ↑obscureness, ↑obscurity, ↑abstruseness • Ant: ↑clarity (for: ↑obscurity) • …

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  • 45abstract — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) adj. theoretical, metaphysical; abstruse, recondite. v. excerpt (from); remove, steal. n. compendium, summary, epitome, précis, abridgment. See supposition, stealing, shortness.Ant., restore; combine;… …

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  • 46profound — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) adj. erudite, learned, abstruse; heavy, weighty, deep; heartfelt, intense; complete, thorough. See feeling, greatness, knowledge, depth. Ant., shallow. II (Roget s IV) modif. 1. [Physically deep] Syn.… …

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  • 47recondite — recondite, abstruse, occult, esoteric can all mean being beyond the power of the average intelligence to grasp or understand. Recondite stresses difficulty resulting from the profundity of the subject matter or its remoteness from ordinary human… …

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  • 48Jacques Derrida — Derrida redirects here. For the documentary film, see Derrida (film). For the physicist, see Bernard Derrida. Jacques Derrida Full name Jacques Derrida Born July 15, 1930(1930 07 15) El Biar ( …

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  • 49abstrusity — /ab strooh si tee/, n., pl. abstrusities for 2. 1. the quality or state of being abstruse. 2. an abstruse statement, action, etc. [1625 35; ABSTRUSE + ITY] * * * …

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  • 50nonfictional prose — Introduction       any literary work that is based mainly on fact, even though it may contain fictional elements. Examples are the essay and biography.       Defining nonfictional prose literature is an immensely challenging task. This type of… …

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