Cadre

cadre







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[kad-ree, kah-drey] 



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–noun 

1. Military. the key group of officers and enlisted personnel necessary to establish and train a new military unit.  



2. a group of trained or otherwise qualified personnel capable of forming, training, or leading an expanded organization, as a religious or political faction, or a skilled work force: 



They hoped to form a cadre of veteran party [members].  



3. (esp. in Communist countries) a cell of trained and devoted workers. 

4. a member of a cadre; a person qualified to serve in a cadre. 

5. a framework, outline, or scheme. 





　

It’s a hallowed [ritual] of film culture. An artist makes a movie that is so labyrinthine and obscure, such a road map of blind alleys, 



such a turgid [challenge] to sit through 

that 

it sends most people skulking out of the theater 



— except, that is, for a cadre of eggheads who [hail] the work as a visionary achievement. 





turgid (swollen) turgid [language]

turbid (dark & muddy)

Nubile