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circumspect - adjective

Watchful, discreet, cautious, prudent, as in a circumspect investment strategy.

I smiled, I waited, I was circumspect; O never, never, never write that I missed life or loving.

—Hilda Doolittle “A Dead Priestess Speaks”

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