SAT Word of the Day: inscrutable

October 6, 2009 by  
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inscrutable (adj.)

From Dictionary.com:

1. incapable of being investigated, analyzed, or scrutinized; impenetrable.
2. not easily understood; mysterious; unfathomable: an inscrutable smile.

In a sentence:

“The ancient manuscript was written in an inscrutable language that could not be easily translated.”

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