🕵️ Covert: You Don't See Me
Overt is its opposite. Both get tested.
📚️ Definition of Covert
Covert (adjective): secret or hidden; not openly practiced or engaged in: covert military operations.
🗣️ Pronunciation of Covert
IPA: ˈkəʊ.vərt (See IPA key)
Phonetic: KOH-vurt
Last-5 Quiz
Test your recall of the last five words we learned! One question each — answer key at the bottom of this email.
1. IMPECCABLE most nearly means
(A) fallible
(B) flawless
(C) meticulous
(D) ostentatious
2. AFFINITY most nearly means
(A) distance
(B) gloom
(C) inherent liking for
(D) acceptance
3. INELUCTABLE most nearly means
(A) immutable
(B) inevitable
(C) imminent
(D) contingent
4. VERBATIM most nearly means
(A) accurately
(B) approximately
(C) word for word
(D) concisely
5. ANOMALY most nearly means
(A) conformity
(B) precedent
(C) paradox
(D) aberration
📰 Examples of Covert
Here are some examples of the word COVERT:
The city official was accused of funneling covert assistance to local organizations to influence the election without public scrutiny.
The Culper Ring was a covert Revolutionary War spy network: aliases, coded letters, invisible ink, secret couriers, hidden messages, military intelligence, and dead drops.
I think my friend Megalo might be a covert narcissist: he’s got no empathy, no accountability, blames others for everything, gaslights his friends, and shirks responsibility.
🗣️ How to use Covert
covert operation/s, covert action, covert surveillance, covert channel
Quiz Answers
COVERT means ✅ A) secret; B) overt; C) candid; D) clad.
Last-5 quiz answers: 1) A — underscore 2) C — fallible 3) C — impeccable 4) B — affinity 5) D — ineluctable
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