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spare, provisional, supporting, supportive, alternate,
alternative: We were forced to rely on our secondary defences
after the enemy cavalry broke through.
second-hand
adj. used, old, worn, Colloq hand-me-down: When we were
children our parents could only afford to dress us in
second-hand clothes. His much-vaunted novels are for the most
part based on second-hand ideas.
secrecy n. 1 mystery, concealment, confidentiality, stealth,
secretiveness, surreptitiousness, privacy, furtiveness,
covertness, clandestineness: Why was there so much secrecy
surrounding the publication date of Jennie's book? 2 in secrecy.
secretly, mysteriously, confidentially, stealthily, secretively,
surreptitiously, privately, furtively, covertly, clandestinely,
sneakily: They carry on much of their business in secrecy.
secret adj. 1 concealed, hidden, private, covert, shrouded,
clandestine; confidential, covert, quiet, under cover,
secretive, unpublishable, unpublished, Colloq hush-hush: There
is a secret passageway leading from the cave to the cove. Keep
secret what I shall tell you. She revealed to me her most secret
desires. 2 cryptic, private, arcane, mysterious,
incomprehensible, esoteric, recondite, abstruse; cryptographic,
encrypted, encoded: We used to communicate by secret code. Did
you receive my secret message?
--n. 3 private or confidential matter or affair, mystery: If I
tell you my secret will you tell me yours? 4 in secret.
privately, confidentially, secretly, on the q.t. or Q.T.;
surreptitiously, under cover, by stealth, stealthily, furtively,
quietly, on the sly, clandestinely: The office manager told me
in secret that John was going to resign. They see one another
in secret.
secrete° v. hide, conceal, cache, bury, cloak, shroud, enshroud,
camouflage, mask, disguise, Slang stash away: They secreted the
haul from the robbery in the cellar of a house in Balham.
secreteý v. yield, excrete, pass, generate, release, ooze, seep, exude,
discharge, leak, drip, drop, dribble, trickle, run, drain, emit,
give off, emanate, transude, Technical extravasate: The ants