circumspect
C2CEFR level
70/100Rarity: rare
FormalRegister
General adjective
Wary and prudent; unwilling to take risks.
She was circumspect about sharing the unverified news.
Business adjective
Cautious and prudent, weighing all circumstances before acting.
A circumspect leader, she withheld judgement until the audit was complete.
Rarity runs from 0 (a word everyone knows) to 100 (almost never seen outside specialist or literary writing). Level is the word's real difficulty on the CEFR scale, from A1 to C2.
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