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arcane

adjective as in hidden, secret

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Joe Reade from the Mull Campus working group told BBC Radio's Good Morning Scotland programme that being forced to send children off the island to board for school is an "arcane" thing to do.

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He was exploiting an arcane loophole on a much larger mission to become the next chess world champion.

Major League Baseball is filled with arcane statistics and historical quirks, but as this season barrels toward the playoffs one stat almost defies belief.

The close finish added scrutiny to an arcane rule that hardly ever comes into play.

“I asked him a series of arcane questions about the central bank and the fed-funds rate,” Warsh, 55, says in an interview.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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