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What does obscure mean?
Adjective. darkenobscure, obscure, enigmatic, enigmatic, ambiguous, ambiguous means not clear clear. darken suggests concealment or concealment meaning due to some inadequacy of the expression or the denial of full knowledge.
How do you spell obscure?
adjective, observer, observer.
The letter T is definitely silent?
In practice yes, in practice quiet if someone does not make much effort to pronounce it. When we have a group of consonants here /ktl/, one sound is often not heard. The linguistic term for this is “dissimilation”.
T is silent in the restaurant?
Re: pronunciation question quiet “T“
Native speakers on these cassettes pronounce “T” very clearly in some words such as ‘often’, ‘a restaurant‘, etc.
Is it okay to say the letter T often?
Answer: The wordoften” maybe pronounced with silence”T” (most often pronunciation) or with a beep “T“. How “correct” is the second pronunciation? It depends on the dictionary you are referring to. Both are correct, according to the American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language (4th ed.).
