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Anonymous Posted 20 years ago
Vocabulary

guilty secret

Her guilty secret was a blight on her happiness.

(the guilty secret )what does it mean…(secret here is noun,adj,or what…)



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Secret is a noun. Something she knows that other people don't know and that she wants to keep private. A guilty secret is one that makes you feel guilty/bad.

— Nona the brit

  • Secret is a noun.
  • Something she knows that other people don't know and that she wants to keep private.
  • A guilty secret is one that makes you feel guilty/bad.
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Secret is a noun. Something she knows that other people don't know and that she wants to keep private. A guilty secret is one that makes you feel guilty/bad.
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It's an interesting example of a transferred epithet. As Nona says, the "guilty" relates to the person who has the secret: the "secret" itself isn't guilty.

MrP
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