A careful plan made to achieve a goal

📝 Their strategy for the match was to defend hard and attack on the break.

📖 Roz begins to form a strategy — a careful plan to leave the farm and find her way back to the island.

Secret or hidden; not done openly

📝 The detectives kept a covert watch on the building from across the street.

📖 Roz's preparations must stay covert; if the farmers or the company suspect anything, her chance will be lost.

Done on purpose; carefully thought out

📝 Her deliberate, careful steps showed she was in no hurry at all.

📖 Every move Roz makes now is deliberate, each small action a quiet step towards escape.

Careful not to attract attention or give away a secret

📝 Be discreet about the surprise party — we don't want Dad to find out.

📖 Roz is careful and discreet, hiding her true intentions behind her ordinary farm routine.

Cleverness and skill at solving problems or inventing things

📝 It took real ingenuity to build a working radio from spare parts.

📖 Escape will take all of Roz's ingenuity — she must outwit the very systems built to keep her in place.

Secretly making a plan, often a daring one

📝 The children were plotting a midnight feast in the dormitory.

📖 Together with Brightbill, Roz spends her nights plotting the long journey home.

Tending to keep things hidden from others

📝 He was very secretive about what he was making in the shed.

📖 The once-open robot grows secretive, keeping her true plan hidden even from the cows.

Involving the chance of danger or failure

📝 Crossing the busy road without looking is extremely risky.

📖 The escape is dangerously risky; if Roz is caught, she may be shut down for good.

An escape, especially a sudden or daring one

📝 The film told the story of a daring breakout from a locked fortress.

📖 Roz's plan is nothing less than a breakout — a daring escape from a place she was sent to stay.

Having firmly decided to do something; not giving up

📝 She was determined to finish the race even with a twisted ankle.

📖 Roz is utterly determined: nothing will stop her from returning to the island and the life she lost.

To take control of a system and stop its normal operation

📝 The pilot can override the autopilot and fly the plane by hand.

📖 To break free, Roz may have to override the controls the company has placed upon her.

To use something for a different purpose than the one it was made for

📝 They repurposed the old ladder into a set of bookshelves.

📖 With clever ingenuity, Roz learns to repurpose ordinary farm tools and objects to help her escape.