Wednesday, December 22, 2010

Are My Seams Straight?

Today's Word "surreptitious"

surreptitious \suhr-uhp-TISH-uhs; suh-rep-\ (adjective) - 1 : Done, made, or gotten by stealth. 2 : Acting with or marked by stealth.


"The company's surreptitious activities regarding its retirement plan, once discovered, were a cause for great concern amongst all the employees."


Surreptitious comes from Latin surrepticius, "stolen, secret, surreptitious," from surripere, "to take away secretly; to steal," from sub-, "under" + rapere, "to seize, to snatch."

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