Emeritus and Obscure

Emeritus

Emeritus adjective - Honorably retired from assigned duties and retaining your title along with the additional title `emeritus' as in `professor emeritus'.
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Obscure and emeritus are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Obscure" instead an adjective "Emeritus".

Obscure

Obscure adjective - Having an often intentionally veiled or uncertain meaning.

Emeritus and obscure are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Emeritus" instead an adjective "Obscure".

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  • Obstructive Bureaucrat The Bridge in the Menagerie series has the Emeritus Professor of Bio-Sophistry, aka the Secretary Bird, who insists on pedantically enforcing obscure bridge rules even when everybody else at the table would rather just let the offence go and get on with it.
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