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obscurant

Despite offering three highly elaborate examples to illustrate his point, the teacher's motives continued to appear obscurant—

he couldn't see the forest for the trees.

he seemed utterly self-absorbed and only interested in exhibiting his cleverness.

he seemed intent on keeping his students mystified and unenlightened.

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