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Six example sentences with obscure, each labelled with its topic.
She built a career translating an obscure Portuguese poet whose entire output fit inside one slim school notebook.
Literature
The speedrun record depends on an obscure trick buried in a decades old cartridge that most players never touch.
Gaming
His argument rests on an obscure medieval commentary that only three libraries hold, none of them open to visitors.
Philosophy
The band's biggest hit was a cover of an obscure folk song that only a few collectors had ever heard.
Music
The portrait's painter remains obscure, and the museum label offers only a region, a decade and a question mark.
Art
An obscure paper from 1958 predicted the whole pattern, but nobody cited it until the crisis made it famous.
Economics
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Found in 10 published word lists
- New Academic Word List (Browne/Culligan/Phillips 2013)Authoritative
- GRE Word List 4700 (widely used study list)Recognized
- 5000 GRE Words (widely used study list)Recognized
- PrepScholar 357 GRE WordsRecognized
- Magoosh GRE 1000Recognized
- PowerScore GRE Repeat Offenders (699)Recognized
- GRE 3000+ word list (widely used study list)Recognized
- GregMat 960 GRE WordsRecognized
- MajorTests SAT 1000Recognized
- SparkNotes 1000 SAT WordsRecognized
Each source is a published word list that contains obscure. No exam board publishes an official GRE, GMAT or SAT list; GMAT words come from GRE lists and the Academic Word List.