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Discreet & Discrete
Discreet - to be careful not to offend or embarrass someone with their words
- We have to keep this conversion discreet, because I do not want my sister to find out we spoke.
- Do you think the boss will be discreet about the situation?
- The teacher needs to be very discreet.
- The doctors are very discreet around their patiences
- My little brother is not very discreet. He says what he feels like saying.
Discrete - separate; distinct; individual; non-continuous
- Our school has three discrete sections.
- The two languages are very discrete from each other.
- There are six discrete categories of books in the store.
- There are some words that have several discrete meanings.
- We created a few discrete categories in order to lower the tax that you have to pay.
- We cut the paper into three discrete sections.
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