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Definitions in simple English

secret

or unknown information. Can you keep a secret?

secret

Known by a small group; hidden. We found her secret diary.

secret

not open or public; kept private or not revealed a secret formula secret ingredients secret talks something that should remain hidden from others (especially information that is not to be passed on) the combination to the safe was a secret he tried to keep his drinking a secret not openly made known a secret marriage a secret bride (= clandestine, cloak-and-dagger, hole-and-corner, surreptitious, undercover, underground) conducted with or marked by hidden aims or methods clandestine intelligence operations cloak-and-dagger activities behind enemy lines hole-and-corner intrigue secret missions a secret agent secret sales of arms surreptitious mobilization of troops an undercover investigation underground resistance communicated covertly their secret signal was a wink secret messages (= private) not expressed secret (or private) thoughts indulging only covertly a secret alcoholic the next to highest level of official classification for documents information known only to a special group the secret of Cajun cooking (= hidden) designed to elude detection a hidden room or place of concealment such as a priest hole a secret passage the secret compartment in the desk (= confidential) (of information) given in confidence or in secret this arrangement must be kept confidential their secret communications (= privy, secluded) hidden from general view or use a privy place to rest and think a secluded romantic spot a secret garden (= mystery) something that baffles understanding and cannot be explained how it got out is a mystery it remains one of nature's secrets (= mysterious, mystical, occult) having an import not apparent to the senses nor obvious to the intelligence; beyond ordinary understanding mysterious symbols the mystical style of Blake occult lore the secret learning of the ancients

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Simple sentences

It's secret.
She seems to have known the secret.
Yuriko thoroughly enjoyed her occasional secret meetings with her lover.
She didn't tell me her secret.
The secret will remain a secret.
Tom has a secret weapon.
We had to keep it a secret.
Tom asked Mary if she could keep a secret.
Nobody knows your secret.
I know his address. But it is a secret.
They told me their secret.
He has discovered our secret.
There's a secret path on the left.
Your secret will be safe with me.
Can you keep a secret?
I will tell you a secret.
We found a secret door into the building.
The true secret of writing a good letter is to write as if you were talking.
Mary told John the secret.
You may as well keep it a secret.
We found a secret passage into the building.
Suspecting him of telling her secret to some of her friends, Mary was angry with Jim.
Hey, what's the big secret? Come on; let me in on it.
Tom talked too much and let the secret slip.

Movie subtitles

This book gives you the secret to eternal life (Sound good?
Do you want to be dragged in secret and killed?
It's a classic case of keeping something secret.
Just don't tell him, though, that'll be our little secret.
You want to know another secret?
It's no secret Declan was a lover of more than just life.
You have to understand, it's love, and.. you don't want it to be a secret.
His mayoral ambitions have never been a secret.
In fact, shame is my secret weapon.
Even if you and Greg are the worst-kept secret in Barco.
Hey, do you want to know a secret about that night?
This is to be an absolutely secret infiltration mission.
Four months ago, she signaled to one of our assets that she had a willingness to talk about a secret weapons program.
Romeo asks Juliet to marry him in secret. She consents.
I've a secret to tell you.
A secret?
How could you keep such a secret to yourself this long?
When you date someone in secret, because you don't want to be seen with them in public.
I think we shouldn't be a secret anymore.
I thought you liked being a secret.
Grace Cardinal. will you be my totally public, not-so-secret, completely-out-in-the-open girlfriend?
If they were trying to keep it a secret, then it's highly likely that they've built a basement.
Then Pyotr wasn't the only secret member of The Blessed.
Obviously. Precisely the reason we have been proceeding in secret.
Cesare know every secret.
All fairy tales come to life, all dreams of secret nights.
But if someone discovers the grotto's secret then we are lost.
Besides, we have a secret weapon.
Bud! What's your secret weapon?
This is our secret weapon.
What's your trade secret? From Gim Hang A to Jae Sin, How did you seduce them?
Initially, it was to keep my Royal identity a secret.
Your North. what must they do in order to survive on this Earth? That's my trade secret.
Patrick, tell me what the secret is.
Just tell me what the secret is.
Four months ago, she signaled to one of our assets to talk about a secret weapons program.
Edna already has a secret love.
The French doctors Bourneville and Teinturier gave me the following pictures of the Witch Sabbath a secret satanic rite to which thousands of women asserted their participation.
High up in the air is Apelone's dream castle, and there the Devil will fulfill all her secret wishes.
Do you have a secret?

News and current affairs

The same is true for free and secret elections and the inviolability of borders.
For example, we do not know whether Iran is conducting secret activities at undisclosed sites, or when Iran could develop a crude nuclear weapon, with estimates ranging from several months to several years.
No secret file is being used to secure a guilty verdict.
Moreover, most of the 20,000 village councils were elected through secret ballot.
Beijing hosted a secret visit by Kim Jong Il at the end of May, perhaps to talk him into hosting the summit as a wedge to replace Washington as the major player on the peninsula.
We tend to think of diplomacy as something carried out in secret; sometimes, however, it is better to hide in plain sight.
Deciding whether a credit event has occurred is left to a secret committee of the International Swaps and Derivatives Association, an industry group that has a vested interest in the outcome.
But it seems unconscionable that the ECB would delegate to a secret committee of self-interested market participants the right to determine what is an acceptable debt restructuring.
But much evidence suggests that most of the process began some time ago, and was meant to be kept secret until broad agreement had been reached on most of the outstanding issues.
Prior to engaging the FARC in secret talks in Cuba, Santos's regional diplomacy shifted the region's politics from saber rattling to the hard work of cooperation.
One gay man has his own television show, even though his sexual preferences are no secret.
These accounts should be frozen, despite the difficulty in doing so in a world rife with secret banking and nominee accounts that disguise true ownership.
But China's secret policemen are already working overtime nowadays, trying to keep up with China's millions of internet users.
Paranoia, informers, and domestic spying are so essential to Communist rule that few people are ever surprised at the extent of secret police operations here.
In this way, both the Israelis and the Palestinians share a secret fear - for some, a belief - that each has no intention of accepting the other's right to a country of their own.
The cause is no secret.
This secret truce was maintained even after Mexico's first open democratic presidential election in 2000, when the long-ruling Institutional Revolutionary Party was ousted from power.
It is no secret that US President Barack Obama wants to maintain an American military presence in the country - a reversal of his declaration in 2009 that the US sought no military bases there.
As for Pinochet himself, ever since July 2004, when the US Senate revealed his vast secret bank accounts, the once-powerful dictator has become a pariah.
But the secret of the University of California's success is its ability to obtain ever-higher amounts of funding from private sources and the federal government.
All those days spent in secret conclave in Basel, drinking through the BIS's legendary wine cellar, have apparently led to no consensus.
But, according to research by Robert Benewick, a professor at the University of Sussex in England, village elections have been growing more competitive, with a greater number of independent candidates and increasing use of the secret ballot.
The agenda is long, but it is hardly a secret.
In August 2001, just before the terrorist attacks on America, the US government vetoed an OECD effort to limit secret bank accounts.
So, as rumors fly of secret marriage ceremonies either already concluded or in the works, could the trouble brewing in India over the French president's very public love life be behind the rush to have the couple legally wed?
Why this discussion had to take place now, in the middle of the Irish crisis, remains Chancellor Angela Merkel's secret.

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