English Word Learning Program: Recondite; Compendious

Our learned, veteran ENT expert with 41 years of experience has recently started another group for learning and understanding English words. Maybe, at the initial stage of our lives and as a mandatory requirement all of us are compelled to go through learning new words. But, after schooling and settling down in their career/life, most of them conclude that whatever is learnt is more than enough and no more learning is required. No doubt, it is a popular tendency there is no dearth of eternal learners as knowing, understanding and learning is a never-ending exercise for those having the urge to keep learning, irrespective of one's age and stage in life. So, let us be thankful for the Doctor preferring to remain anonymous and including me in the group having 300+ members almost all of them being doctors and medical practitioners. Let us have a look at a couple of words for today:



Recondite: Difficult or impossible for one of ordinary understanding or knowledge to comprehend: DEEP

A recondite subject.



Relating to, or dealing with something little known or obscure.



Recondite fact about the origin of the holiday



Hidden from sight: CONCEALED.



Her poems are modishly experimental in style and recondite in subject matter.



Such teachings are very recondite and need considerable study to understand fully.



This recondite reinterpretation of the classics had the unlooked-for result of keeping them alive and well for many, many centuries.



*To a craftsman, the ancient article with recondite and scholastic words was too abstruse to understand.

*We had to work from material that was both complex and recondite.



Compendious: Containing or presenting the essential facts of something in a comprehensive but concise way.

"A compendious study".



Containing all the necessary facts about something.

A compendious description.



Short but complete, including everything that is important.

This is a compendious, judicious collection of poetry.



Large and including many different things:

He had such a compendious vision of what it meant to be alive.

Her knowledge of the city is compendious.



In the end, a compendious sum-up and an expectation were brought out.



The taxation system of Hong Kong is very compendious, and the tax rate is very low.



Made a compendious introduction to the aluminium foil industry of Germany and France.



My professor referred me to the book Compendious System of Astronomy.