Roget's Thesaurus by Peter Mark Roget
457. announce, annunciate; report, report progress; bringword[obs3],
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send word, leave word, write word; telegraph, telephone; wire; retail,
render an account; give an account &c. (describe) 594; state &c
(affirm) 535. [disclose inadvertently or reluctantly] let slip, blurt
out, spill the beans, unburden oneself of, let off one's chest;
disclose &c. 529. show cause; explain &c. (interpret) 522. hint; given
an inkling of; give a hint, drop a hint, throw out a hint; insinuate;
allude to, make allusion to; glance at; tip the wink &c. (indicate)
550; suggest, prompt, give the cue, breathe; whisper, whisper in the
ear. give a bit of one's mind; tell one plainly, tell once for all;
speak volumes. undeceive[obs3], unbeguile[obs3]; set right, correct,
open the eyes of, disabuse, disillusion one of. be informed of &c.;
know &c 490; learn &c. 539; get scent of, get wind of, gather from;
awaken to, open one's eyes to; become alive, become awake to; hear,
overhear, understand. come to one's ears, come to one's knowledge;
reach one's ears. Adj. informed &c. v.; communique; reported &c. v.;
published &c. 531. expressive &c. 516; explicit &c. (open) 525, (clear)
518; plain spoken &c, (artless) 703. nuncupative, nuncupatory|;
declaratory, expository; enunciative[obs3]; communicative,
communicatory[obs3]. Adv. from information received. Phr. a little bird
told me; I heard it through the grapevine.
#527a. Correction. [Correct an error of information; distinguish from
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correcting a flaw or misbehavior]—N. correction.
disillusionment &c. 616.
V. correct, set right, set straight, put straight;
undeceive[obs3];
enlighten.
show one one's error; point out an error, point out a fallacy;
pick
out an error, pick out the fallacy; open one's eyes.
pick apart an argument, confutation &c. 479; reasoning &c. 476.
Adj. corrective.
Phr. I stand corrected.
#528. Concealment.—N. concealment; hiding &c. v.; occultation,
mystification. seal of secrecy; screen &c. 530; disguise &c. 530;
masquerade; masked battery; hiding place &c. 530; cryptography,
steganography[obs3]; freemasonry. stealth, stealthiness, sneakiness;
obreption|; slyness &c. (cunning) 702. latitancy[obs3],
latitation[obs3]; seclusion &c. 893; privacy, secrecy,
secretness[obs3]; incognita. reticence; reserve; mental reserve,
reservation; arriere pensee[Fr], suppression, evasion, white lie,
misprision; silence &c. (taciturnity) 585; suppression of truth &c.
544; underhand dealing; closeness, secretiveness &c. adj.; mystery.
latency &c. 526; snake in the grass; secret &c. 533; stowaway. V.
conceal, hide, secrete, put out of sight; lock up, seal up, bottle up.
encrypt, encode, cipher. cover, screen, cloak, veil, shroud; cover up
one's tracks; screen from sight, screen from observation; drawing the
veil; draw the curtain, close the curtain; curtain, shade, eclipse,
throw a view over; becloud, bemask; mask, disguise; ensconce, muffle,
smother; befog; whisper. keep from; keep back, keep to oneself; keep
snug, keep close, keep secret, keep dark; bury; sink, suppress; keep
from, keep from out of view, keep from out of sight; keep in the shade,
throw into the shade, throw into background; stifle, hush up, smother,
withhold, reserve; fence with a question; ignore &c. 460. keep a
secret, keep one's own counsel; hold one's tongue &c. (silence) 585;
make no sign, not let it go further; not breathe a word, not breathe a
syllable about; not let the right hand know what the left is doing;
hide one's light under a bushel, bury one's talent in a napkin. keep in
the dark, leave in the dark, keep in the ignorance; blind, blind the
eyes; blindfold, hoodwink, mystify; puzzle &c. (render uncertain) 475;
bamboozle &c. (deceive) 545. be concealed &c. v.; suffer an eclipse;
retire from sight, couch; hide oneself; lie hid, lie in perdu[Fr], lie
in close; lie in ambush (ambush) 530; seclude oneself &c. 893; lurk,
sneak, skulk, slink, prowl; steal into, steal out of, steal by, steal
along; play at bopeep[obs3], play at hide and seek; hide in holes and
corners; still hunt. Adj. concealed &c. v.; hidden; secret, recondite,
mystic, cabalistic, occult, dark; cryptic, cryptical[obs3]; private,
privy, in petto, auricular, clandestine, close, inviolate; tortuous.
behind a screen &c. 530; undercover, under an eclipse; in ambush, in
hiding, in disguise; in a cloud, in a fog, in a mist, in a haze, in a
dark corner; in the shade, in the dark; clouded, wrapped in clouds,
wrapt in clouds[obs3]; invisible &c.447; buried, underground,
perdu[Fr]; secluded &c. 893. undisclosed &c. 529, untold &c. 527;
covert &c. (latent) 526; untraceable; mysterious &c. (unintelligible)
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