Words for describing feelins,emotions,attitudes etc. that sb hides

Hidden
- Do You Have Many Hidden Talents To Explore?
- I see a hidden courage in him which .

Suppressed
  Suppressed feelings are the strong emotions like fear,anger,live... that you try to stop them showing by force:

- He was full of suppressed emotions that wanted to express them.
- Suppressed anger is harmful and can kill you.

Repressed
Repressed feelings and emotions are the ones that you deliberately try to keep them from being expressed:

- Doctors advised him to handle his negative and repressed feelings.
- while suppressed emotions are very undesirable, the important question most people would ask is “How can I safely release suppressions...

Disguised
To hide your true feelings so as to prevent people from knowing them:

- She attacked her boss with a badly disguised hostility.
- he was talking with a thinly disguised anxiety which was clear for every body.
- This is lust thinly disguised as love.
- Don't allow unjust criticism to disturb you; it may be a disguised compliment.

Veiled
Veiled describes words or ways of behaving which are not direct or expressed clearly:

- A veiled reference/threat/warning
- A thinly veiled attack on his abilities as a leader.
- A thinly veiled threat.
- He intended to make a veiled public appeal for more cash for the police services.
- English people are notoriously repressed and don't talk about their feelings.

Words for describing sth that sb has hidden

Hidden

- The treasure was hidden in a small cave.
- I found my book hidden under a table.
- I showed him the videos taken of his house by a hidden camera.
- It passed and he looked upriver to where Mariana lay hidden upstream of the fallen tree trunk.
- They are easily accessible and hidden from view.                                                                              -The money was carefully hidden somewhere in the house.
- They are not able to find the Monument yet has remained hidden from the mysterious workers.
- I doubt very much they're hidden under your pillow.
- Four people from different countries are hidden away in the damp jungles of Panama.
- Yet, in the hidden away little resort of Portals Nous, there is an oasis of calm, - - tranquility and romance, centered around the Hotel Portals.
- lie/remain hidden treasures which have lain hidden in bank vaults since the war.
- remain/stay hidden The truth may well remain hidden for ever.

Concealed

- What are the concealed aims of the group?
- The police managed to find the concealed monument under water.
- He kept his money concealed behind a big rock.
- The responsibilities of the museum decided to keep the painting concealed from the public view.

A place for hidding yourself

Hiding place
- They were looking for a good hiding place to conceal their money .
- I knew a safe hiding place ,no one could ever find it.
- He returned to his hiding place after killing three people.
- The cops couldn't find me although they walked right pass me within a few meters of my hiding place.

Place to hide
- She said to me: `;Look, just to shut you up, I'll find a better place to hide it.
- Yesterday --; All my troubles seemed so far away --; Now I need a place to hide away.
- Grabbed both children and ran, but realized soon there was no place to hide.
- These damaging pests have found that your compost bin is a lovely place to hide and shelter.

Hideout
A word meaning a place to hide which is often used in conversation:

- Have they got a secret hideout?
- The police officers identified the place as having been the kidnappers' hideout.
- Police track down bomb suspects to Bombay hideout.
- The navigators would disappear into their hideout and work out their courses and prepare their charts.

To deliberately attempt to conceal truth or information from the public

Cover up
To attempt to conceal the truth or information about an illegal or unethical act or situation like crimes,scandals or serious mistakes especially about politicians so that people cannot discover them :

- The congress accused the police to cover up the crime.
- The President lied to cover up his relationships with the woman.
- the CIA wanted to cover up its failure in the aftermath of the events that took place in Riyadh.
- The authorities attempted to cover up the homicide.

Also as a noun
- He suggests in his upcoming memoirs that Reagan was directly involved in a " deliberate " cover-up effort.
- The Food and Drug Administration is currently investigating an alleged cover-up by Hoffman on its adverse effects of the new drug.
- He said I didn't realize they were participating in a cover-up.
- He's is angrily denying that he approved a massive " sea of lies " cover-up in connection with the 1988 downing of an Iranian commercial airliner with 290 people aboard.

Whitewash
To hide mistakes,faults or unpleasant facts about something or someone espeially a government or a politician.

- He claimed that the whole crime was whitewashed.
- this is not to whitewash the actual political practice of the government.
- Japan is accused of whitewashing its history of warfare and imperialism by omitting or minimizing subjects such as the Nanking Massacre in textbooks.[
- Angry protesters whitewashed the offensive billboards.

Also as a noun
- He pledged that there would be no whitewash and that the police would carry out a full investigation...
- the report was a whitewash.
- The official report on the taxes has been condemned as a total whitewash.

To deliberately hide facts or information

Hide
- The authorities tried to hide the facts from the people.
- I feel sure there's something about her past that she's trying to hide from me.
- He tried to hide his addiction from his father.

Conceal
- She concealed any evidences of her father’s murders.
- The authorities concealed the facts of the CIA involvement in the uprising.
- He concealed the truth from her.

Keep something secret
To deliberately not allow somebody knows a subject or an event:

- The authorities told me that you must keep the event secret.
- The resupply effort was probably kept secret from Congress.
- They kept the plan secret from other people.

Suppress
To prevent someone from knowing information or facts:

- The government tried to suppress the book because of the information it contained about the security services.
- At no time did they try to persuade me to suppress the information...
- Police were accused of suppressing evidence that might have proved that the men were innocent.
- The CIA has often tried to suppress reports that are embarrassing to the agency.

Cover up
To conceal evidence of wrongdoing, error, incompetence or other embarrassing information:

- He decided to cover up his apartment's ugly kitchen with portable mats rather than install permanent flooring..
- They tried to cover up their own inabilities and errors.
- When Caroline visits her handsome ex-beau at his office, she tries to cover up her attraction to him.
- A lot of good dialogue in films is the lies people tell to cover up what they're really feeling.
- I was amazed that the building contractors we hired tried to cover up the problems they had.

Hush up
To keep something immoral or dishonest secret and from public knowledge by authorities; suppress mention of:

- The scandal has been discussed by the politburo, although the authorities have tried to hush it up...
- The Ministry desperately tried to hush up the whole affair.
- The whole affair was hushed up by the government.
- Did the CIA hush up top-secret operation against Al-Qaeda? -
- It is at the behest of New Delhi that a desperate attempt is being made to hush up the case.

Cover your tracks
To be careful not to leave any signs or evidence that show know where you have been or what you have doing because you want to keep it a secret, usually because it is illegal:

- Roberts covered his tracks by throwing the knife in the river and burying his wife's body.
- He tried to cover his tracks by burning all the documents.
- They moved constantly and furtively, covering their tracks and contacting nobody.

Draw a veil over sth
A formal word meaning to hide or avoid discussing an unpleasant event or something happened in the past because it could cause trouble or make someone embarrassed:

- I think we should draw a veil over this conversation and pretend it never happened.
- Louise drew a veil over the accounting errors.
- It looked as if Luke's pride had allowed him to draw a veil over last night's final moments, and she was grateful for it.
- Think it best to draw a veil over the whole incident.
- Both sides sought to draw a veil over the argument.

Sweep or brush something under the carpet (British, American & Australian)/Sweep something under the rug (American & Australian)
To try to keep a problem, difficulty, mistake or an unpleasant thing secret in the hope that it will be forgotten or ignored:

-For a long time they tried to sweep under the carpet the crime.
-The real issues are just swept under the carpet and ignored.
-The problem is usually ignored or swept under the carpet.
-Refuse to sweep difficulties under the carpet but sort things out even when it is painful.
-We knew that it wouldn't just go away if we swept it under the carpet.
-The authorities tried to sweep the scandal under the carpet.

Keep something under wraps
keep something hidden and secret, not show or talk about Details of  it:

- They kept the information under wraps

- The judge kept the proceedings under wraps.

- The project has been kept under wraps for years.
- Details of the police operation are being kept under wraps.

- Many buyers preferred to keep their identities under wraps.

Keep something dark
A British word meaning to keep something secret and hidden from other people:

- I have a promotion but keep it dark.
- A retired teacher kept his wife murder secret for more than two decades .
- They kept their political activities dark.

Keep somebody in the dark also leave somebody in the dark
To intentionally conceal information from someone. Either to avoid confrontation or to gain from the other’s lack of information:

- Congress complained about being kept in the dark about the peace talks.
- When it comes to keeping something secret, the plan should be to keep in the dark.
- Council has kept us in the dark over plan.
- They kept me in the dark about their plans
- Public kept in the dark about talks on North American integration
- Liberal Catholic bishops kept in the dark over secret talks ...

Former vs. Previous

Former and previous are used to describe someone or something that used to exist or occur but no longer exists or occurs; but there are subtle differences between them:

“Former” implies “of the past, having taken place in the (historical) past.”
“Previous” means only “before”—as in a sequence.

The opposite of previous is next and the opposite of former is latter. Followings are the comparisons between the two :

1- Former and previous can be used to describe someone who had a particular position, role or job in the past, but no longer has it:
 
- …former President Richard Nixon…
- He pleaded not guilty to murdering his former wife.
- The ceremony honored all the former presidents who are still living.


A former president of the USA refers to any of presidents that used to be in that position (e.g. Abraham Lincoln or George H. W. Bush).The previous president means any president just before the one under discussion.The president of the USA is only the one who was in that position before the current president of the USA. (current president of the USA is Barack Obama; George W. Bush was before him); or any president that was before any other president in that position in the past (e.g. Ronald Reagan was before George H. W. Bush).

- “When Lincoln took office, he found that the previous president had left him some unfinished business.”
- In 1798, George Washington was “the former president,” but there was no “previous president.”
- The former employee of the company had lost her three previous jobs.
2- Former is used to refer to countries which no longer exist or whose boundaries have changed:

- …the former Soviet Union.
- …the former Yugoslavia.
In this use previous is rarely used.

3- Former and previous is used to describe something which used to belong to someone or which used to be a particular thing:

- …the former/previous home of Sir Christopher Wren.
- …a former/previous monastery.
- Their farm has been reduced to half its former/previous size.
Their difference follows the one was described in No.1.

4- Former and previous is used to indicate that something comes proceeding in place or arrangement:


- The former chapter of the book refers to any of the chapters you used to read.
- The previous chapter of the book implies the chapter just before the one you are reading.

5- The two words are used to indicate that something occurred in the past:

- The former/previous correspondence.
- The former/previous world champion.

6- Former and previous both are used to describe a situation or period of time, which came before the present one. Former is more formal than previous; but previous is much more common:

- He would want you to remember him as he was in former/previous years.
- Marble pillars and high painted ceilings remain from former/ previous times.


Previous refers to the period or the thing immediately before the one that you are talking about:

- It was a surprisingly dry day after the rain of the previous week.
- She looked tired after her exertions of the previous evening.


7- When two people, things, or groups have just been mentioned, you can refer to the first of them as the former. Previous in this use is not used:

- Given the choice between a pure white T-shirt and a more expensive, dirty cream one, most people can be forgiven for choosing the former…
Opposit:latter

Resources
Mcmillan Dictionary
Collins Cobuild dictionary

Absorb vs. Adsorb

Absorb means to suck up or drink in (a liquid, gas or other substances):

- Plants absorb carbon dioxide from the air and moisture from the soil...
- The timber expands as it absorbs moisture from the atmosphere.

Adsorb indicates that a solid holds molecules of a gas or liquid or solute as a thin film or condensed layer on the outside surface or on internal surfaces within the material:

- Charcoal will not adsorb nitrates .
- The dye is adsorbed on to the fiber.

Disguise

Verb
1- To change your appearance,sound or taste etc of something, especially in order to hide your appearance:

- She has had a lot of cosmetic surgery in an attempt to disguise her age.
- We disguised our faces before robbing the bank.
- There's no way you can disguise that southern accent.

2- To conceal or cover up the truth ,feelings,opinions or actual character of by a counterfeit form or appearance; misrepresent:

- She tried to disguise her intention.
- He didn't disguise his anger.

Noun
A) A dress or exterior put on for purposes of concealment or of deception; as, persons doing unlawful acts in disguise are subject to heavy penalties.

- She was wearing a disguise of a blond wig and glasses.
- He has adopted so many disguises her own mother wouldn't recognize him.
- His bizarre disguise drew stares from fellow shoppers.

B) The concealing of one's true intentions or feelings:
- That eye which glances through all disguises.
- His cheerful manner is a disguise that hides the pain.

Collocations

Disguise as
- Well, it may be hard to disguise junk as health food.
- He managed to escape by disguising himself as a woman.
- She disguised herself as a boy.

Disguised as
- He escaped across the border disguised as a priest.
- The extremists entered the building disguised as medical workers.
- A letter bomb disguised as a musical greetings card.
- They got in disguised as security guards.

As a disguise
- He put on a large hat and glasses as a disguise and hoped no one would recognize him.
- I pun on glasses as a disguise.
- He grew beard and mustache as a disguise.

Disguise oneself
- She disguised herself as a man so she could fight on the battlefield.
- The spy disguised himself as a reporter and went into the hall to gather information.
- The journalist disguised himself as a waiter in order to get into the celebrity party.

The act of disguising:
Without disguise
- He spoke without without disguise.
- Rows of small children looked at her without disguise.

In disguise (wearing disguise)
The state of being disguised; masquerade:

- She usually goes out in disguise to avoid being bothered by the public. .
- He was instantly recognizable in any country, in any kind of uniform, even in disguise.
- The woman in the park turned out to be a police officer in disguise.
- The more artistic films are dismissed as pornography in disguise.
The last sentence has the meaning of: To hide what something really is, especially by making it seem better than it is.

Disguise in
- Then he gets into her bed and disguises himself in her clothes to trap the child.
- He was obviously Officer Cecil, poorly disguised in false mustache, tailcoat and spats.
- the most genuine threat to our lives came disguised in the quietest way, when we broke the cardinal rule of touching an unidentified creature.

Disguised by
- Their inadequacy is often disguised by the tax incentives that many governments give to institutional saving.
- Under capitalism, exploitation is disguised by the ideas of equality and freedom.
- She was just cheerfully fat, her obesity partly disguised by the fact that she, too, wore a Mother Hubbard.

Other prepositions
- She glanced sideways with disguise at the Canadian.
- He was wearing a hat and glasses in an absurd attempt at disguise, but he, Fedorov, was not deceived.
- There was no pretense or possibility of disguise with these men as there was with his charter party

Adjective
- He gave the secret information of the club to a disguised rival.
- She was about to marry a disguised man,not her real lover.
- It was a thinly disguised(= only slightly) attack on the President.

Adverbs
- The hijackers were heavily disguised.
- It was a thinly/barely disguised attack on the President.

Thinly disguised if something is thinly disguised etc, someone is pretending it is something else, but you can easily see what it really is:
- He looked at Frank's new car with thinly veiled envy.
- She was cleverly/cunningly disguised as a doctor.

Phrases
In an attempt/effort to disguise something/try to disguise something.
- He made no attempt to disguise his anger.
- he made no effort to disguise his contempt.

A blessing in disguise
something that has a good effect, although at first it seemed that it would be bad.
- Being omitted from the World Cup squad was a blessing in disguise.
- Poor Jonas' death was a blessing in disguise, though one could wish it had happened differently.
- Be positive, this could be a blessing in disguise, use the time gained wisely.

Adopt, Put on, Wear,Use

- I just put on disguise and played normally. play as if nothing has happened.
- OK now for this once be a sneaker on any level get an upgrade, put on a disguise until you get to the character you want to be
- So I put on a disguise, make my journey undercover.
- What disguises might an undercover reporter wear,Would you wear a disguise to your press conference?
- Brian must avoid detection by those around him, and can adopt disguises to fool onlookers
adopt a drastic/multiple disguises.
- she is obliged to adopt a series of elaborate disguises
- Spies had to adopt cunning disguises so that they could pass into enemy territory unnoticed
- The Use of Disguise in Elizabethan Drama.
- Robbers used underwear as disguise.
- The ability of the libertine to use disguise for individual interest and amusement is recognized.

Disguise that/the fact that
- Their healthy image disguises the fact that they are highly processed foods.
- We don't attempt to disguise that we're four fallible people up there playing music.
- There's no disguising the fact that(it is obvious that) business is bad.
- The essential purpose was to disguise the fact that Dennis was an alcoholic.

Disguise beneath
- There was hostility, disguised beneath the surface calm.

Can't/Couldn't
- She couldn’t disguise the fact that she felt uncomfortable.
- He could not disguise that he had had the worst imaginable day for any minister.

Related subjects
To hide sth/sb by changing their appearance,sound

To make sth difficult to see by coveing it

Hide
- The church roof was half hidden by trees.
- The road was hidden by a large building.

Conceal
To cover something so that it is hidden:

- A long velvet curtain concealed a small doorway.
- That hat concealed her hair.
- A pair of carved cupboards concealed the door.

Shroud
(of an area)To be covered by smoke,fog,mist, darkness so that it can not be seen:

- Mist shrouded the outline of Buckingham Palace.
- Suddenly all the lights went out and the house was shrouded in darkness.
- The mist shrouding the valley had lifted by eight o'clock.
Under shroud of
- The village vanished under shroud of fog/mist.
-A parked car huddled under a shroud of grey snow. 


Cover
To put or spread something over something:

- Snow covered the hillsides.
- She covered him with a blanket.
- The clouds had spread and nearly covered the entire sky...
- The desk was covered with papers...

Veil
To cover with or as if with a veil:

- Dense fog veiled the bridge.
- A thin mist veiled the lake.
Behind/beneath a veil of 

(formal) a thin layer that stops you from seeing sth:

-The mountain tops were hidden beneath a veil of mist.

- Shrouded in an eerie veil of mist.

-The moon was hidden and a veil of mist covered the mountain.

Draw a veil over (Slightly formal)
To hide something:

- Dense fog drew a veil over the landscape.

-  Snow drew a veil over the hill.

Cloak
A word which is often used in literary writing meaning to cover or hide something with something else:

- The river is often cloaked in (= covered by) mist in the early morning.

- The hills were cloaked in thick mist.

- The beautiful sweeping coastline was cloaked in mist.

Note that A cloak of something such as mist or snow completely covers and hides something.

Blanket
A formal word meaning to cover something completely with a thick layer:
be blanketed with/in something:

- Outside the fields were blanketed in fog.
- More than a foot of snow blanketed parts of Michigan.
- The room was entirely blanketed in dust.
Under blanket of

- The mud disappeared under a blanket of snow...
- Cold damp air brought in the new year under a blanket of fog. 


Mantle
(literary)a mantle of snow/darkness etc:something such as snow or darkness that covers a surface or area:

- A mantle of snow lay on the trees.
- The houses were covered with a thick mantle of snow.
- Hills with a mantle of snow.
- A grey mantle of mist shrouding the slopes.
Under mantle of
Literary a layer of something which covers a surface or area for example a layer of snow on the ground. 

- We watched the building vanish under a mantle of thick grey smoke
- The parks and squares looked grim under a mantle of soot and ash.
- A mantle of snow lay on the trees.
- The houses were covered with a thick mantle of snow.
- A grey mantle of mist shrouding the slopes


Obscure
to prevent something from being seen properly:

- Mist obscured the view.
- Her face was partially obscured by the shadows.

Blot out
To cover something completely so that you are not able to see it.to darken; make dim;

- The clouds/thick smoke blotted out the sun.
- The victims' faces were blot out by a camera blur.

Obliterate
To cover something completely so that it cannot be seen.

- Then the fog came down, obliterating everything.
- fog obliterated the mountain from view.
- The park had been obliterated beneath a layer of snow.
- clouds were darkening, obliterating the sun

Mask
To cover in order to conceal something:

- His blue eyes were masked by dark glasses.
- They were robbed by a man wearing a ski mask.
Behind/beneath a/the mask of ~

- Two eyes glared at him from beneath the mask.  

- two men in black masks  .

To hide sth/sb by being in front of it

Hide
- The house was hidden from the road by tall trees.
- Clouds hid the stars.
- The man's heavy mustache hid his upper lip completely.

Conceal
- The shadows concealed her as she crept up to the house.
- The path was concealed by long grass.
- A long velvet curtain concealed a small doorway.
- a line of sand dunes concealed the distant sea
- clouds concealed the sun.

Block
To prevent something from being seen.

- A row of tall trees had blocked the view of the valley.
- a line of spruce trees that blocked his view of the long north slope of the mountain.
- The huge building across the street blocked our view of the sea.

Obstruct
To conceal something or someone by being positioned in front of it and stopping you seeing it properly:

- Claire positioned herself so as not to obstruct David's line of sight.
- The trees in their garden obstruct our view of the ocean.
- The pillar obstructed our view of the stage.

Screen
To hide someone or something by being in front of them:

- The cottage was screened by the trees
- Their activities screened by darkness
- A line of tall trees screened the shop from the street.
- Most of the road behind the hotel was screened by a block of flats.

Obscure
To prevent something from being seen properly:

- One wall of the parliament building is now almost completely obscured by a huge banner.
- The view was obscured by mist/smoke/fog.
- clouds/mist that obscured the mountain peak.

Mask
To block the view of something so that it can not be seen or noticed:

- Undergrowth masked the entrance to the cave.
- The new accommodation block has all but masked the original building.
- the poplars masked a factory.

To hide sth/sb by changing their appearance,sound

Disguise
To change your appearance,sound or taste etc of something, especially in order to hide your appearance:

- She has had a lot of cosmetic surgery in an attempt to disguise her age.
- We went the party in disguise.
- There's no way you can disguise that southern accent.

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Camouflage
To conceal from an enemy by the use of disguise or by protective coloring, leaves, branches, paints and clothes that make it look like the things around it.

- The men were dressed in camouflage and carrying automatic weapons.
- They were Wearing flamboyant orange berets and somber brown camouflage uniforms.
- They donned white armbands to distinguish themselves from the Chechens wearing similar camouflage suits.
- The whiteness of the arctic fox acts as camouflage, hiding it from its enemies.

Guise
Under/in the guise of: looking like someone or something else, or pretending to be them:

- They operated a drug-smuggling business under the guise of an employment agency.
- The company has been accused of trying to sell their products under the guise of market research.
- This is a country where reporters have to visit in the guise of tourists.
- he visited in the guise of an inspector.
- sums paid under the guise of consultancy fees.

Mask
To cover or hide something so that it can not be seen:

- The bank robbers wore masks throughout the raid.
Pretending to be somebody else.
- under the mask of being a tourist, he spied on the economic affairs of the country.

Cloak
(literary) to cover something or hide it.
Under the cloak of

- But he strongly disapproved of the proselytizing that went on under the cloak of humanitarianism.
- Lawyers, under the cloak of client confidentiality, can mask the beneficial owners of accounts.

Conscious vs. Aware vs. Cognizant

Conscious,aware and cognizant refer to an individual sense of recognition of something within or without oneself:

Conscious implies to be aware or awakened to an inner realization of a fact ,truth,condition,etc:
- To be conscious of an extreme weariness.
- I was very conscious of the fact that I had to make a good impression.

Conscious also emphasizes the recognition of something sensed or felt: “an importance... of which even Americans are barely conscious” (William Stanley Jevons).

Aware lays emphasis on knowledge gained through one's own sense perceptions or by means of information:

- He was aware of the odor of tobacco.
- Are you aware of your opponent's hostility?
- I am aware that the legislation passed.

Cognizant lays the emphasis on an outer recognition more on the level of reason and knowledge than on the sensory level alone:

- He was cognizant of their drawbacks.
- Our research indicates that the nation's youth are cognizant of the law” (Jerry D. Jennings).

Hide yourself

Hide somebody from somebody

- We'll have to hide him from the soldiers.
- She hid in a room when her guests came.
- She hide him under a bridge/on a roof.

Conceal
A formal expression meaning to hide yourself from somebody.

- When you see that she is coming, conceal yourself under table at once.
- Ron Concealed himself behind a big stone when he heard the thieves were approaching.

Hole up
to hole up somewhere : means to hide somewhere or shut yourself in a safe place for a period of time because the police, people or reporters can not find you or disturb you.

- She was holed up at a resort somewhere, trying to avoid the media.
- The FBI believes that Richards is holed up on an estate in Colombia.
- The gang holed up in a cheap hotel for a few weeks.
- We were all planning to hole up till the trouble blew over.

lie low
to try to keep out of sight and not be noticed until it is safe to come out because someone is trying to find you or catch you.

- He told me that he lay lie until the trouble passed.
- If you don't want to go back to jail, you'd better lie low for a while.
- But Phil will never miss his football, not even if he has to lie low for a couple of months.

Lie in wait (for someone)
to remain hidden in a place and wait for someone so that you can attack them:

- a giant crocodile lying in wait for its prey.
- The soldiers were lying in wait in the ambush to attack the enemy.
- The terrorists were surprised to find that the police were lying in wait for them.

Lurk
to wait or move secretly and quietly so that you cannot be seen, usually because you are going to attack someone or do something wrong:

- But along the margins the ghosts still lurk.
- The suspicious looking men lurked in the shadow.
- Witnesses said they saw a man lurking near a woman's house.
- She didn't see the figure lurking behind the bushes.
- He thought he saw someone lurking above the chamber during the address.

Stow away
conceal oneself on a ship, aircraft, etc. so as to travel secretly without paying or surreptitiously:

- A boy was caught trying to stow away on a plane.
- He stowed away on a train and landed in the last station.
- Please stow your bags securely in the overhead compartments.

Skulk
to hide or move around because you try not to be noticed, usually with bad or sinister motives:

- There was someone skulking behind the bushes.
- I don’t want reporters skulking around here.
- He was still skulking around outside when they left the building.
- You, meanwhile, will be skulking in the safety of the car...

Related subjects
Hide vs. Conceal
Withhold sth from vision or observation

References
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Longman Activator Dictionary

Consecutive vs. Successive

Consecutive and Successive both apply to objects which follow one another without interruption or break.

Consecutive stresses the immediacy in following, regularity or fixedness of order and the close connection (as in time,space or logic)of the units ,consecutive days, weeks, years,...:

- He named the numbers from one to ten in consecutive order.
- She was absent from the office for sixth consecutive day.
- My brother won five consecutive races/games.

Successive
Happening or following in order immediately one after another without interruption regardless of differences in duration, extent or size or of the length of
the interval between the units:

- She weakened progressively by successive illness.
- It was his fourth illness after coming back to the country.
- He remained champion for the fifth successive year.

Here is an excerpt from the Merriam- Webster's Dictionary of synonyms :

One would speak of nine, ten. eleven as consecutive numbers since they follow one another in immediate and regular order ,but of flashing the successive numbers three,eleven and nine on a screen since the order would then be neither immediate nor regular;one would speak of successive (not consecutive) leap years since the order though regular is not immediate and of successive strokes of a piston since,though immediate, it need not be regular (the most important cause... has run throughout post-Conquest history like a consecutive thread - Coulton) (the product of the successive labors of innumerable men- Munford) Consecutive is also applicable to a person or to thought that manifests logical sequence (consecutive thinking absolutely requires personal initiative -Eliot)

References:
Merriam- Webster Dictionary of Synonyms and Antonyms
Longman Activator Dictionary

Withhold something from vision or observasion

Hide
To put something in a place and make it unlikely to find it.

- They hide the money in a small box.
- I have $1000 hidden away where no one can ever find it.
- There was nowhere to find.

Conceal
To cover or hide something.

- He tried to conceal his part in the accident.
- That hat concealed her hair.
- She was suspected of concealing weapons in her house.

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Secrete
A word that is found in literal and formal writings meaning to take something or put something especially sth small and valuable somewhere secretly in a hiding place so that it is unlikely to be found.

- We secreted ourselves in the bushes.
- The drugs were secreted in a briefcase.
- He secreted the package in a hidden drawer.
- He secreted the amulet inside his shirt.
- The money had been secreted in a Swiss bank account.

Stash
An informal word meaning to store something, especially something valuable like money, drugs, weapon in a secret place. Often used with away.


-The police are looking for guns that have been stashed away.
- He kept thousands of banknotes stashed in a jar.
-Their wealth had been stashed away in Swiss banks.
- She has a fortune stashed away in various bank accounts.
- The gun was stashed under the bed.
- He stashed money away in a safe place in a remote area.

Cover
To put something over something else in order to hide.

-Mary covered her face with a veil.
-He tried to cover the bag with a towel.

Bury
a)To hide something by covering over with earth; hide:

- He buried the treasure in the back garden.
- The dog had buried its bone in the garden.

b) to cover from view:

- His glasses were buried under a pile of papers.
- She buried her face in her hands with embarrassment.

Bring vs. Fetch

Bring means to carry something or come with someone to the place where you are or to the place where you are talking about :

- Would you like me to bring anything to the party?
- She brought her boy friend to the party.
- The secretary brought him into the room.

Fetch is a British word meaning to go somewhere and get someone/something from the place they are.

- May you fetch Mary from the station.
- He fetched his newspaper from his house.
- I went and fetched another book.

Two more weeks vs. Two weeks more

I have two more weeks/days/years to finish the book
versus
I have more two weeks/days/years to finish the book.

There is a slight difference between them. 'Two more weeks' simply indicates that there are an additional two weeks available for finishing the report. 'Two weeks more' gives the idea that there is no need to worry because there are still another two weeks available. The difference is not really very great.

References:
English-test.net

Future Progressive Tense vs. Future Simple Tense

1- A) Future progressive tense is used to indicate that an action or event will be taking place or going on at some time in the future :

- I will be taking my math exam next week.
- This time next week I’ll be flying to Rome
- We'll be leaving next Monday.
- When you arrive, I'll be writing my homework.
- I will be working with my computer for six hours.

B) Will occur repeatedly:

- He will be giving his wife flowers every week.
-They will be doing exercises every day.
- He’ll be studying his lesson two hours a day.

2-The Future Continuous can be used when we talk about an activity or an event that will extend during a period of time from now into the future.

- He will be playing football until 6o'clock.
- She will be watching TV until her mother arrives.

3-To refer to actions/events that happens in the normal course of events during a future period of time.

- I'll be seeing Jim at the conference next week.
- Will you be using your camera this evening?
- I'll be seeing Jane this evening - I'll give her the message.
- When I arrive at the station, my parent will be waiting for me.

4-A) We use the future continuous to predict what is happening now:

- We will be relaxing on the beach at this time next month.
- Next winter, we will be enjoying skiing on the mountains.
- Don't call him now, he’ll be doing his homework.
- I’ll be learning computer next week.
- Try phoning his house. He'll probably still be having dinner.
- She will be deciding which country to choose for her next destination.

B) It is also used to make sympathetic predictions about someone's feelings:

- He'll be feeling disappointed after such a great failure.
- You'll be needing more food after such a hard work.

5- We use the future continuous to ask extremely politeness about someone's plans (without wishing to influence those plans).

- Will you be watching TV this evening?
- How long will you be staying in the hotel? (You simply want to know how long he will be in
the hotel)
- Will you be coming with us to the club this evening?
- Will you be needing anything else?
- Will they be joining us for dinner?

6-We can use future progressive to talk about future events or plans that are fixed or decided.

- He will be looking after the factory until I appoint a new manager.
- I'll be visiting your country on a regular basis. In fact, I'm going to be coming next month.
- We will be living at 10 o’clock tonight.

7- We can use the construction to indicate that an action in the future will be interrupted by another action which is shorter than the first one.. ( the shorter action in the future is expressed with Present Simple or sometimes with Present continuous, in this sense it is usually associated with "when,while,as soon as,..." ):
- I’ll be studying English when she arrives.
- She‘ll be playing a game when he arrives .
- I'll be making dinner when he is watching TV.

Notice that:
The future continuous tense is not very commonly used as other sentences, and we can sometimes replace it with tenses such as simple future, present progressive or even simple present.

-I will be writing in a few minutes.
-I will write in a few minutes.
- I'm going to write in a few minutes.
- I'm writing in a few minutes.
- I write in a few minutes.

A) Like all future forms, the Future Continuous cannot be used in clauses beginning with "when", "while", "before", "after", "by":

- While I 'll be watching TV. he will call.( incorrect)
- I'll be watching TV while he calls.(correct)

B) Use adverbs like" by the time" and" tomorrow/next week/next year this time "with the future continuous:

- By the time they open, she will be shopping in a different store.
- By the time they arrive, I will be leaving the office.
- At this time tomorrow I'll be doing exercise very hard.

C)We can use other modals like: " should and might" instead of "will" in the future progressive tense:

-He should be studying until 5:00 tonight, so call her later tonight.
-Americans might be struggling to make ends meet if the economy gets any worse!

Difference between future progressive tense and future simple tense

1- In the interrogative form, especially with 'you', to distinguish between a simple request for information and an invitation:

- Will you be coming to the party tonight? (= very polite, suggesting I simply want to know
your plans)
- How long will you be staying in the hotel?
- Will you come to the party? (= invitation)
- Will you come back tomorrow,please? (= order or instruction)
- Will we be spending too much money if we buy that big-screen TV?

2- In some cases the simple future and the future progressive tenses express very similar situations or actions, especially when the future action takes place at an indefinite time in the future. In the following examples, note that both sentences express an almost identical situation: We can't say for sure at what time Tyler is coming, but he is expected soon:

-Tyler will be coming soon.
-Tyler will come soon.

(Robin Torres-Gouzerh, Intermediate English Grammar for ESL Learners, McGraw-Hill

Professional, 2008)

On the street vs. In the street

On the street - generally has the meaning of positioned along the street or a line:

- His house is right on the main drag.
- There are many parks on that street.

In the street - means within the boundaries of the curbs:

- Don't play in the street.
- I saw two men fighting in the street.

References:
eslHQ.com