Word For The Day, Thursday, April 17, 2014 – recondite

dictionaries ad nauseam | 17 April 2014 | Thursday's sub

[secret garden]

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In order that we might all raise the level of discourse and expand our language abilities, here is the daily post of "Word for the Day".

recondite \REK-un-dyte\ adjective
1. hidden from sight; concealed
2. difficult or impossible for one of ordinary understanding or knowledge to comprehend : deep
3. of, relating to, or dealing with something little known or obscure

Example sentence:
"We hear from mathematicians that bees have practically solved a recondite problem, and have made their cells of the proper shape to hold the greatest possible amount of honey, with the least possible consumption of precious wax in their construction."
— From Charles Darwin's 1859 book On the Origin of Species

Etymology:
While "recondite" may be used to describe something difficult to understand, there is nothing recondite about the word's history. It dates to the early 1600s, when it was coined from the synonymous Latin word "reconditus." "Recondite" is one of those underused but useful words that's always a boon to one's vocabulary, but take off the "re-" and you get something very obscure: "condite" is an obsolete verb meaning both "to pickle or preserve" and "to embalm." If we add the prefix "in-" to "condite" we get "incondite," which means "badly put together," as in "incondite prose." All three words have Latin "condere" at their root; that verb is translated variously as "to put or bring together," "to put up, store," and "to conceal."

The sentence must, in some way, relate to the news of the day. The Review threads are linked for your edification. ;-)
Practice makes perfect.....post on....

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Review Threads:

Review Thread One: Word For The Day, Thursday 11/14/02: Raffish
Review Thread Two: Word For The Day, Tuesday 1/14/03: Roister
Review Thread Three: Word For The Day, Tuesday 1/28/03: Obdurate

WFB's attempt to emulate us ; ) No pushing at the door please!

[secret garden]

Rise and shine!

[xsmommy]

Remember the recondite Gary Condit?

[SoothingDave]

When I went to gather intelligence on the dam, I was recon dike.

[Jack Hydrazine]

Do you mean the recondit Gary Condit that never attended Recondo school?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recondo

[SoothingDave]

http://www.npr.org/blogs/codeswitch/2014/04/16/303721251/light-and-dark-the-racial-biases-that-remain-in-photography?utm_source=facebook.com&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=npr&utm_term=nprnews&utm_content=20140416

So, film is racist now. Thanks, NPR!

[secret garden]

Yes I do. A for you.
Last night, our youngest made a CD for a friend with 70s and 80s music to broaden her horizons after quizzing us last night about songs and I asked her to burn an extra for me. So she comes out to the car this am, waving this CD and grinning. I asked if that was for her friend and she said no, it's yours and I said we need to label it. We start to drive, she loads it into the player and proceeds to roar with delight all the way there.

[secret garden]

So are murals. This guy has done all the murals all over this town and this was the first complaint he has ever had.

[secret garden]

A for you.

[secret garden]

A for you.

[hobbes1]

Meh

[hobbes1]

I do that when I check out the lipstick girls

[hobbes1]

Aaargh...RickRolled!

[hobbes1]

And Debate....thanks for getting my dander hp.

[SoothingDave]

Things must be pretty good for the NAACP if that’s all they got. #FirstWorldRacismProblems

[TruthShallSetYouFree]

To respond to today’s word, I reckoned I’d
Describe how Obama’s been recondite
His vows of “transparent”
Mendacious and errant
He’s lucky that Kenya won’t expedite

[secret garden]

You're welcome. :-)

[secret garden]

They just couldn’t look more petty.

[secret garden]

Now that was creative. A+ for you!

[secret garden]

They were already in trouble for recondite recordings made illegally but the left bought in anyway.