Vocabulary notes of unit 1

Exercise 9. Read and translate the sentences. Pay special attention to active words.

1. Gossip (noun)

1. Don't tell him anything private - he's a terrible gossip. 2. I don't believe Liz had an affair with him. That's just malicious gossip. 3. I got back from my vacation eager to hear all the latest gossip. 4. I heard an interesting piece of gossip about Beth Ann. 5. Mrs Busby was always ready to exchange local gossip with the customers who came into her shop. 6. Polly follows all the gossip about the royal family. 7. Recently her name has showed up a lot in gossip columns. 8. The conversation began to drift towards gossip about their colleagues. 9. The public never seems to tire of Hollywood gossip. 10. The town gossips had been spreading rumours about Bruce for months.11. A lie is as good as the truth to a gossip.12. Eliza Grierson was known as a gossip of Olympian standards. 13. He loved to use gossip, half-truths, and lies to separate friends and to destroy relationships.

gossip (verb)

1. Cocteau's jazz club was the spot where artists gossiped and drank. 2. I wasn't doing anything important - just gossiping with a neighbour. 3. It's best not to tell Frank anything. You know how he gossips. 4. This is where the locals gather to gossip and talk politics. 5. Those two old ladies sit there every day, gossiping about everyone in town. 6. But she might walk slowly, gossiping on the way, or even stop off at some other house to drink tea. 7. From what she had told me, Gail hung around with her girlfriends, gossiping and looking at boys. 8. He didn't want to sit gossiping in the kitchen with that old slob of a cousin.9. If people gossiped about her Fleather would never hear it.10. If you've been gossiping about someone, go to those you gossiped to and try to restore the person's reputation. 11. Women did their shopping, gossiped, and then went home to prepare the Sunday meals for their families.

gossip column (noun)

1. Even colleagues assumed the gossip column staff spent most of their waking hours at parties. 2. Harriet read film and gossip column mags voraciously. 3. He made more gossip column copy than our delightful princess.4. When such an article rises above the level of a gossip column, the artist's profile can be a valuable format.

gossipy (adjective)

1. A four- or five-minute interview on a gossipy level, quite cheeky and witty and charming I've no doubt. 2. Excerpts from the book proposal, published on Inside.com, a gossipy website, only heightened the mystery. 3. Suddenly it all seemed so small, so gossipy, and so narrow. 4. There is something gossipy and gay about him. 5. You need to be either in the charts or heading that way to earn space in those gossipy pages.

2. Wind (verb)

1. I hate watches that you have to wind. 2. My watch has stopped - I must have forgotten to wind it. 3. Route 101 winds along the coastline for several hundred miles.4. She wound the car window down to speak to the police officer. 5. The staircase appears almost to be floating on air, as it winds its way up three stories. 6. The trail winds through the hills and then down towards Ironhorse Falls. 7. We decided to take the Blueridge Parkway, which winds its way through the Smoky Mountains. 8. You wind the handle on the side to make the music play. 9. As the day winds on, he collects a few possums, a couple of skunks. 10. He could maybe wind her up a bit if he had the chance. 11. In my imagination I saw a country road winding through granite hills or threading the sides of dunes. 12. Once they were driving to meet friends for dinner when they spotted a pair winding across the highway. 13. Try winding four or five large curlers into the crown to add height. 14. Fifty miles of color-coded pipes as thick as an arm wind along the wall.15. Follow the path as it winds its way through the forest. 16. He felt it winding through his own arteries, something vile and slippery like heavy black oil in a crankcase. 17. The Turtle winds through the park near several buildings and roads damaged last week.