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Recondite Beautiful Rek Uhn Dahyt Adjective Concerned Profound Esoteric Difficult

Front recondite \REK-uhn-dahyt\
Back adjective
1. Concerned with a profound, esoteric, or difficult subject.
2. Little known; obscure. 

[From Latin recondere (to hide), re- (back) + condere (to put together), from con- (with) + -dere (to put). Earliest documented use: 1619.]

"With its fragmented words, multilingual puns and recondite allusions, the verse of Paul Celan hovers on the edge of untranslatability." - Mark M. Anderson; A Poet at War With His Language; The New York Times; Dec 31, 2000.

"The sight of beautiful people making beautiful babies is a huge turn-on; but a recondite TV actress dying in a state of dementia, as Marty would say, 'not so much'." - Lynn Crosbie; Brangelina Babies; The Globe and Mail (Toronto, Canada); Aug 5, 2008. 

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