http://dictionary.reference.com/wordoftheday/archive/2007/06/25.html
after Andrew Bird's
Armchair Apocrypha (and not the GREs) reminded me that this word exists, I started to really like it. ("You said I was too abstruse, I thought it was just some kind of bird..." or something like that).
Fr next week's WOTD, I need a word to describe
abstruse's reflexivity. Hopefully it will be something as cool and ridiculous as "onomatopoeia," though I imagine it's probably some obscure linguistics term... even worse one of those words Chomsky made up.
In a side note, science is abstruse in order to maintain elitism and prevent cross-disciplinary communication or ... progress. Comments?