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You can describe something as abstruse if you find it highly complicated and difficult to understand.
When someone wishes to remain anonymous, they do not reveal their name.
Something that is clandestine is hidden or kept a secret, often because it is illegal.
To cloister someone is to remove and isolate them from the rest of the world.
Covert activities or situations are secret and hidden.
A designation is a name, label, or mark that something is given to identify it.
To divulge something is to reveal information that was once private or secret.
If you evince particular feelings, qualities, or attitudes, you show them, often clearly.
If you exude a quality or feeling, people easily notice that you have a large quantity of it because it flows from you; if a smell or liquid exudes from something, it flows steadily and slowly from it.
An action that is flagrant shows that someone does not care if they obviously break the rules or highly offend people.
If someone behaves in a furtive way, they do things sneakily and secretly in order to avoid being noticed.
Something that is inconspicuous does not attract attention and is not easily seen or noticed because it is small or ordinary.
Something that is latent, such as an undiscovered talent or undiagnosed disease, exists but is not active or has not developed at the moment—it may develop or become active in the future.
A misnomer is a name given to someone or something that doesn’t quite fit or is inaccurate in some obvious way.
Something is opaque if it is either difficult to understand or is not transparent.
An overt act is not hidden or secret but is done in an open and public way.
If a mood or feeling is palpable, it is so strong and intense that it is easily noticed and is almost able to be physically felt.
A patent situation is one that is wide open and unconcealed; it is both evident and obvious.
A pseudonym is a fictitious or false name that someone uses, such as an alias or pen name.
If you employ subterfuge, you use a secret plan or action to get what you want by outwardly doing one thing that cleverly hides your true intentions.
A surreptitious deed is done secretly to avoid bringing any attention to it.
Something that is tangible is able to be touched and thus is considered real.
If someone acts in an unobtrusive way, their actions are not easily noticed and do not stand out in any way.
Adv.
incognito
in-kog-NEE-toh
Context
To avoid Snickety Sam’s finding him, Harrison wore a wig and sunglasses, going incognito or traveling in disguise throughout the town where they both lived. Luckily, Harrison’s neighbors knew that he was changing his appearance to remain hidden from Snickety Sam, and they helped keep him incognito or not recognizable by calling him “Hidden Hal” in public. Harrison managed to remain incognito or concealed even though Snickety Sam searched for him for months.
Quiz:Try again!
When might someone want to be incognito?
When they are trying not to show how surprised they are by something.
When they hope to disguise themselves and hide their identity.
When they are new to a situation and want to observe how to behave.
Not Into Recognition Albert was not into recognition, so to keep other people from recognizing him he would always go about incognito.
Examples
And sometimes, [Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeney] logs onto Fortnite. He has played 1,600 multiplayer matches incognito, he told NPR. "I have a name that nobody knows. I just go play randomly with groups of people, and they have no idea who I am, and we just have a good time together.”
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NPR
The only sign that [Naomi Osaka had] been there was a series of photographs she briefly posted on Instagram before removing them from her feed. . . . She and her boyfriend remained largely incognito, though Cordae was recognized a couple of times. “I’m not famous like that,” says Osaka . . . .
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Wall Street Journal
[Queen Elizabeth] and her younger sister Princess Margaret went incognito to mix in with the crowds and experience firsthand the joy of the people who were celebrating [the end of World War II] all over London. . . . She said that she and her sister were "terrified" of being recognized, so she pulled her uniform cap down over her eyes.
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People Magazine
[Gripped] by paranoia and hidden away from the rest of the world, . . . [Bobby] Fischer arranged to travel incognito to Cambridge, Massachusetts, where he played three games against a computer program called Greenblatt, developed by an MIT engineer.
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FiveThirtyEight
Someone goes about incognito because he “doesn’t” want to be “known” by others.
Word Theater
Batman (1966) The man who is going to go incognito is the same man who is speaking on the phone!
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Related Words
abstruse ·
anonymous ·
clandestine ·
cloister ·
covert ·
furtive ·
inconspicuous ·
latent ·
misnomer+ ·
opaque ·
pseudonym+ ·
subterfuge ·
surreptitious ·
unobtrusive ·
designation ·
divulge ·
evince ·
exude ·
flagrant ·
overt ·
palpable ·
patent ·
tangible ·
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Word Variants
incognito
adj
→
with concealed identiy
incognito
n
→
one whose identity has been concealed
incognita
n
→
a woman whose identity has been concealed
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