The tutor brings up a definition he’s long wondered about.

The word arcane seems rarely used nowadays, but I’ve always thought it a great word. When I encountered it yesterday, I looked it up:

arcane: shrouded in mystery; nebulous by reason of complexity

A text written in an ancient language, for instance, might be described as arcane.

Source:

Barber, Katherine et al. Oxford Canadian Dictionary of Current English. Don Mills:
   Oxford University Press, 2005.

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