Vocab Tadka : Abstruse vs Obtuse (Confusing Words)
ABSTRUSE
| 1 | (s) | difficult to penetrate; incomprehensible to one of ordinary understanding or knowledge Type: ‘adj.all’ Synonym: deep, recondite, |
Sentence Usage :
- The subject is too abstruse to enlarge further upon here.
- Until last week, that point may have seemed a little abstruse.
- His papers are often difficult to read, but never diffuse or tedious; his mathematical treatment is never needlessly abstruse, for when his analysis is complicated it is only so because the subject-matter is complicated.
How to remember : AB stress nahi doge or brain USE(last 2 alphabets) nahi karoge then you wont be able to understand anything.Difficult to understand.
OBTUSE
| 1 | (a) | of an angle; between 90 and 180 degrees Type: ‘adj.all’ |
| 2 | (s) | (of a leaf shape) rounded at the apex Type: ‘adj.all’ |
| 3 | (s) | lacking in insight or discernment Type: ‘adj.all’ Synonym: purblind, |
| 4 | (s) | slow to learn or understand; lacking intellectual acuity Type: ‘adj.all’ Synonym: dense, dim, dull, dumb, slow, |
Sentence Usage :
- They provide a very powerful, but also rather obtuse, set of tools for finding particular words or combinations of characters in strings.
- Obtuse summit; aperture with a simple border.
- In Helix the spire forms a more or less obtuse-angled cone; there are above 1200 species, of which 24 are British.
How to remember : Imagine a pencil tip –> The more obtuse the angle between the two edges of the tip, the more blunt the tip is.
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