Which phrase best clarifies the underlined portion of the sample sentence?Pedro wanted his note to be a secret. Accordingly, he went about putting the message into code.

To put a message into code so that it stays secret is to encrypt it. “He encrypted the message” restates that action clearly. Deciphering or breaking a code means figuring out what a coded message says, which is the opposite of making one secret.

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