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Here is a list of ten words which are near synonyms dealing with 'GOSSIP and GRAPEVINE'. The sentences below are quotes of great writers. Select the word originally used by the writer and fill in the blanks. If you have time, ponder over whether you will use the same word in a similar setting, when you are engaged in your own creative writing.
1. Babble
2. Prattle
3. Gossip
4. Idle talk
5. Petty talk
6. Small talk
7. Chatter
8. Rumor
9. Hearsay
10.Twaddle.
791. The duke, my husband and my children both,
And you the calendars of their nativity,
Go to a ________ feast and go with me;
After so long grief, such festivity! (Shakespeare : The Comedy of Errors).
792. I _______ over stony ways,
In little sharps and trebles,
I bubble into eddying bays,
I babble on the pebbles. (Tennyson: The Brook)
793. Pull your wits together and answer me straightly. In what form has the foul fiend appeared, and how has he done this grievous scathe to our brethren?Have you seen him with your own eyes, or do you repeat from _______? (Arthur Conan Doyle: Sir Niger).
794. Men that meet to talk of physicks or metaphysicks, or law or history, may be immediately acquainted. We look at each other in silence, only for want of __________ upon slight occurrences. (Dr. Samuel Johnson: Piozzi letters).
795. The innocent prattle of his children takes out the sting of a man's poverty. But the children of the very poor do not _______. It is none of the least frightful features in that condition, that there is no childishness in its dwellings. (Charles Lamb: The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb, Vol.2)
796. "Soon did the spot become my other home,
My dwelling, and my out-of-doors abode.
And, of the Shepherds who have seen me there,
To whom I sometimes in our _________
Have told this fancy. ..." (William Wordsworth: Lyrical Ballads)
797. Portia: Prithee, listen well.
I heard a bustling __________ like a fray,
And the wind brings it from the Capitol. (Shakespeare: Julius Caesar, Act II, Scene IV)
798. "Do tell me something amusing but not spiteful," said the ambassador's wife, a great proficient in the art of that elegant conversation called by the English, __________ (Leo Tolstoy: Anna Karenina)
799. Then the jury'll _______ and twaddle and twaddle, and finally they'll fetch in a verdict that he got shot or stuck or busted over the head with something, and come to his death by the inspiration of God.
(Mark Twain: Tom Sawyer Detective).
800. This is mere moral __________, and direct
Against the canon laws of our foundation.
I must not suffer this; yet 't is but the lees
And settlings of a melancholy blood. (John Milton : Comus)
