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Vocab: Arcane

Tuesday Dec 16, 2008 – by

arcane \ar-KAYN\, adjective:

Understood or known by only a few.

Practitioners of this arcane art combine highly abstract mathematical deduction with some of the basic behavioral assumptions of micro-economics to produce theories of the behavior of voters, of representative assemblies, of bureaucracies, and even of courts.
– Jerry L. Mashaw, Greed, Chaos, and Governance
Resource: Dictionary.com

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