Gossip And Rumor Vocabulary

noun a secret or confidential matter

adjective characterized by secrecy or confidentiality

• The details of the project are meant to be kept hush hush until the official announcement.
• Hey, keep it hush hush, we don't want anyone to find out yet.
• Let's make sure this party is hush hush, don't want the neighbors complaining.
• The truth about her past remained hush hush, hidden from everyone.

noun a word that represents a person, place, thing, or idea

verb a word used to describe an action, state, or occurrence

adverb a word or phrase that modifies or qualifies an adjective, verb, or other adverb

pronoun a word that can function by itself as a noun phrase and that refers either to the participants in the discourse (e.g., I, you) or to someone or something mentioned elsewhere in the discourse (e.g., she, it, this)

conjunction a word used to connect clauses or sentences or to coordinate words in the same clause (e.g., and, but, if)

• He said that he would be attending the meeting tomorrow.
• She said she's going to the party tonight.
• He said he's gonna bail on us.
• She said she would move mountains to make it happen.