4/27/96

Today's word is:

	esoteric (es,-O-ter'-ik) - adj. understood by or restricted
        to a specific (and usually small) group.

	"Even though proper appreciation of the punchline specifically
	 required some rather esoteric knowledge about astrophysics
	 which he was definitely not privy to, John, not wanting to feel
	 left out, laughed right along with his astronomer friends anyway."