obscure

In a sentence

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

Found in these word lists

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.

More Academic words

• coupled
• discretionary
• assuming
• incline
• practitioner
• render
• communicative
• hypothetical
• inhibited
• accompaniment
• confines
• lecturing