Contents -AUTHOR INDEX -BIBLIOGRAPHIC RECORD

Mawson, C.O.S., ed. (1870–1938). Roget’s International Thesaurus. 1922.

Class IV. Words Relating to the Intellectual Faculties
Division (II) Communication of Ideas
Section II. Modes of Communication

533. Secret.

   NOUN:SECRET; dead -, profound- secret; arcanum, mystery; latency [See Latency]; Asian mystery; sealed book, secrets of the prison house; le dessous des cartes [F.].
  ENIGMA, riddle, puzzle, nut to crack, conundrum, charade, rebus, logogriph; monogram, anagram, anagrammatism; Sphinx; crux criticorum [L.].
  MAZE, labyrinth, meander [usually in pl.], Hyrcynian wood; intricacy.
  PROBLEM (question) [See Inquiry]; paradox (difficulty) [See Difficulty]; unintelligibility [See Unintelligibility]; terra incognita [L.] (ignorance) [See Ignorance].
   ADJECTIVE:SECRET (concealed) [See Concealment]; involved [See Convolution]; labyrinthian, labyrinthine, labyrinthic or labyrinthical, mazy, meandrous.
  ENIGMATIC or enigmatical, anagrammatic or anagrammatical, monogrammatic, logogriphic, cryptic or cryptical.
   QUOTATION:She was more mystical than Woman.—Dunsany