| Main Entry: | gossip |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | talk about others; rumor |
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account, babble, back-fence talk, blather, blether, buzz*, calumny, chatter, chitchat, chronicle, clothesline, conversation, cry, defamation, dirty laundry, dirty linen, dirty wash, earful, grapevine, hearsay, idle talk, injury, malicious talk, meddling, news, prate, prattle, report, scandal, scuttlebutt, slander, small talk, story, tale, talk, whispering campaign, wire |
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fact |
| Main Entry: | information |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | facts, news |
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advice, ammo, break*, chapter and verse, clue, confidence, counsel, cue, data, dirt*, dope*, dossier, earful, enlightenment, erudition, illumination, info, inside story, instruction, intelligence, knowledge, leak, learning, lore, lowdown, material, message, network, notice, notification, orientation, propaganda, report, science, scoop, score, tidings, tip, what's what, whole story, wisdom, word* |
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ignorance |
| Main Entry: | message |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | communication, often written |
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bulletin, cannonball, communiqué, directive, dispatch, dope, earful, epistle, information, intelligence, intimation, letter, memo, memorandum, missive, news, note, notice, paper, report, tidings, wire, word |
| Main Entry: | rebuke |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | reprimand; harsh criticism |
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admonishment, admonition, affliction, bawling-out, berating, blame, castigation, censure, chewing-out, chiding, comeuppance, condemnation, correction, disapproval, dressing-down, earful, expostulation, going-over, hard time, kick in the teeth, lecture, lesson, objurgation, ostracism, punishment, put-down, rap, rating, rebuff, refusal, remonstrance, reprehension, reproach, reproof, reproval, repulse, row, scolding, slap in the face, snub, talking-to, telling-off, tongue-lashing, upbraiding |
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compliment, flattery, praise |
| Main Entry: | report |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | gossip, talk |
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advice, blow by blow, buzz*, canard, chat, chatter, chitchat, comment, conversation, cry*, dirt*, earful, grapevine, hash, hearsay, intelligence, murmur, news, prating, rumble*, rumor, scandal, scuttlebutt, small talk, speech, tattle, the latest, tidings, whispering, word* |
| Main Entry: | revelation |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | disclosure, telling |
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adumbration, announcement, apocalypse, betrayal, blow by blow, break, broadcasting, clue, communication, cue, discovery, display, divination, divulgement, earful, epiphany, exhibition, expose, exposition, exposure, eye-opener, flash, foreshadowing, inspiration, leak, lightning bolt, manifestation, news, oracle, proclamation, prophecy, publication, scoop*, showing, sign, the latest, tip, uncovering, unearthing, unveiling, vision |
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secret |
| Main Entry: | rumor |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | talk about supposed truth |
Synonyms: |
back-fence talk, breeze*, bruit, canard, comment, cry, dispatch, earful, fabrication, falsehood, fame, fiction, gossip, grapevine, hearsay, hoax, innuendo, intelligence, invention, lie, news, notoriety, report, repute, rumble, scandal, scuttlebutt, story, suggestion, supposition, tale, tattle, tidings, whisper, wire, word |
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truth |
| Main Entry: | talk |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | discussion |
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argument, colloquy, conclave, confabulation, conference, consultation, conversation, deliberation, dialogue, earful, encounter, eyeball-to-eyeball, huddle, interlocution, interview, meeting, negotiation, palaver, parlance, parley, powwow, seminar, spiel*, straight talk, symposium, ventilation, visit |
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silence |
| Main Entry: | talebearing |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | gossip |
Synonyms: |
account, babble, back-fence talk, blather, blether, buzz*, calumny, chatter, chitchat, chronicle, clothesline, conversation, cry, defamation, dirty laundry, dirty linen, dirty wash, earful, gossipry, grapevine, hearsay, idle talk, injury, malicious talk, meddling, news, prate, prattle, report, rumor, scandal, scuttlebutt, slander, small talk, story, tale, talk, tattle, tittle-tattle, whispering campaign, wire, word* |
| Main Entry: | revelation |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
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