occult
C2CEFR level
75/100Rarity: rare
TechnicalRegister
General verb
To conceal or cut off from view, especially by blocking.
A bank of cloud occulted the moon just as the ceremony began.
Medicine adjective
Present but not clinically detectable without special investigation.
Occult blood in the stool prompted a colonoscopy that revealed an early caecal carcinoma.
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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