Elisive: not recognised by OED. Elide: (variously) to destroy, to annul, to suppress. Occlusive: having the property of occluding something (well, yes). Occlude: to block so as to prevent anything passing in or out. Adumbrated: "shadowed forth; represented faintly or in outline". Like that one. Abstruse: concealed, hidden, secret. Also, "remote from apprehension or conception, difficult,recondite". hmmm Recondite: "removed or hidden from view; kept out of sight" Rare, it says. Now you, Marie of Roumania, clearly know what all these words mean, so this glossary is presented merely for the interest of your more ignorant witterers.
I have to think of a way of using "adumbrated" in casual conversation...
Re: words not long but twisty
Elisive: not recognised by OED. Elide: (variously) to destroy, to annul, to suppress.
Occlusive: having the property of occluding something (well, yes). Occlude: to block so as to prevent anything passing in or out.
Adumbrated: "shadowed forth; represented faintly or in outline". Like that one.
Abstruse: concealed, hidden, secret. Also, "remote from apprehension or conception, difficult,recondite". hmmm
Recondite: "removed or hidden from view; kept out of sight" Rare, it says.
Now you, Marie of Roumania, clearly know what all these words mean, so this glossary is presented merely for the interest of your more ignorant witterers.
I have to think of a way of using "adumbrated" in casual conversation...
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