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esoteric
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  • ...some esoteric psychology journal.  (source)
    esoteric = confined to and understandable by only a few
  • But then you have so many esoteric phrases.  (source)
    esoteric = private (understandable by only an enlightened inner circle)
  • ...some belonged to different orders, including the Vanguard, the Minstrels, the Promethean Scholars, the Bloodstone Circle, and many other esoteric groups from Rowan's early days.  (source)
    esoteric = understood by few
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  • Patriotism was a bit esoteric for me, too large-scale to see.  (source)
    esoteric = difficult to understand
  • an elegant ... esoteric hothouse bloom  (source)
    esoteric = not known to many people
  • ...the ordeal of a professional social life, and he could never understand that esoteric phenomenon, the dinner-party--the painful entertainment of people whom one neither likes nor finds interesting.  (source)
    esoteric = understandable by only an enlightened inner circle
  • Then opening a seamless door in the wall, he disappeared into the cabinet where he kept his more expensive and esoteric spirits.†  (source)
  • There are only a few questions left, and they are the esoteric ones.†  (source)
  • The courses seemed esoteric and disconnected from the race and poverty issues that had motivated me to consider the law in the first place.†  (source)
  • On both sides of the phone, dozens of phone numbers and esoteric notes were written in pen and marker (205.555.1584; Tommy to airport 4:20; 773.573.6521; JG—Kuffs?)†  (source)
  • When we become expert in something, our tastes grow more esoteric and complex.†  (source)
  • The long afternoons she spent browsing through dictionary and thesaurus made for constructions that were inept, but hauntingly so: the coins a villain concealed in his pocket were "esoteric," a hoodlum caught stealing a car wept in "shameless auto-exculpation," the heroine on her thoroughbred stallion made a "cursory" journey through the night, the king's furrowed brow was the "hieroglyph" of his displeasure.†  (source)
  • For his esoteric amusement he commanded the jolies filles (and we obliged) to line up in front of him in order of height.†  (source)
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