secret, opaque, insular, reclusive, clandestine, shadowy, supersecret, stealthy, tightlipped, covert, discreet, closemouthed, inscrutable, unaccountable, eurocentric, unforthcoming, cloistered, compartmented, paranoid, clubby, shady, furtive, distrustful, mysterious, tightly knit, untrusting, cliquish, arcane, reticent, unusual, hermitic, surreptitious, authoritarian, shrouded, sensitive, conspiratorial, uncommunicative, cabalistic, sinister, murky, byzantine, cryptic, clannish, privy, closeted, convoluted, regimented, transparent, autocratic, obscure, ruthless, fractious, standoffish, freewheeling, complicated, semipublic, chummy, subversive, duplicitous, incestuous, lax, haphazard, cagey, nefarious, confidential, hierarchical, meticulous, inner circle, dysfunctional, cloaked, corrupt, undemocratic, sophisticated, devious, enigmatic, mistrustful, labyrinthine, risky, gossipy, rigid, staid, brazen, warier, nebulous, backroom, repressive, freebooting, hierarchal, uncooperative, uncheckable, quiet, circumspect, unpredictable, deliberative, dark, dictatorial, sub rosa, restrictive, notorious, timid, disputatious, ambiguous, gregarious, unsocial, easygoing, sociable, carefree, pugnacious, businesslike, introverted, unsociable, extroverted, lethargic, predatory, combative, humorless, quarrelsome, shy, asocial, despicable

affair, affaire, amour, asocial, black-headed snake, gastrophryne olivacea, intimacy, involvement, liaison, lined snake, lurk, night lizard, openness, secretively, skulk, sneak, tropidoclonion lineatum, western narrow-mouthed toad

close, closelipped, incommunicative