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Term: astruse

Part of Speech: adjective

Sense 1: Difficult to understand or comprehend; obscure.

Example Sentence 1: The professor's lecture on quantum mechanics was so astruse that most of the students struggled to keep up.

Part of Speech: verb

Sense 1: To make something difficult to understand; to obscure.

Example Sentence 1: The author intentionally employed complex metaphors to astruse the true meaning of his novel.

Part of Speech: noun

Sense 1: A person who is difficult to understand or relate to; an enigma.

Example Sentence 1: She was known to be an astruse, often lost in her own thoughts and hard to connect with.

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