Abstruce

The Word of the Day for September 26 is "abstruse."

abstruse: (adjective) difficult to understand; difficult to penetrate; incomprehensible to one of ordinary understanding or knowledge

Synonyms: deep, recondite

Usage: The professor's lectures were so abstruse that students tended to avoid them.

Relevance to my life: Overcoming communication differences between men and women tends to be one of the greatest difficulties in relationships; being of an entirely different species from men, I often have a difficult time decyphering their abstruse actions and language.

What it is not: a synonym for obtuse (dense, dull-witted) -
In the Shawshank Redemption, Andy says wonderingly to Warden Norton, "How can you be so obtuse," a question which landed him with a month in solitary confinement. I guess the warden didn't appreciate having his intelligence questioned.

It is also not: a synonym for cessation of exercise hostilities -
After battling multiple sets of crunches, leg-lifts and the bicycle exercise, I gave in a called an abstruse. (Abs truce... get it?)  LOL

Ok, ok. That was bad.

Sometimes you have to take the easy ones.