Word to the Wise: Abstruse
Abstruse (ab-STROOS) – from the Latin for “concealed” – means hard for the average person to understand; secret; hidden.
Example (as used by James Surowiecki in The Atlantic): “The economist Susan Woodward has shown that the mortgage industry’s reliance on abstruse and complex pricing schemes makes it difficult to comparison-shop effectively.”
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