secret

secreto

Información que alguien no quiere que los demás conozcan.

En inglés sencillo: Information that someone does not want other people to know.

• Can you keep a secret?
• She told me a secret about her family.
• They discovered secrets that had been hidden for years.

Cómo se usa: keep something a secret (Please keep our plan a secret.)

Sinónimos: confidential information

Expresiones frecuentes: keep a secret, tell a secret, share a secret, family secret

secreto, clave

Lo que hace que algo funcione bien o explica por qué tiene éxito.

En inglés sencillo: The important thing or method that makes something work well or explains its success.

• Patience is the secret to success.
• What's the secret of your delicious soup?
• She shared her secrets for growing healthy tomatoes.

Cómo se usa: the secret to something/doing something (Practice is the secret to playing well.); the secret of something (What's the secret of your success?)

Sinónimos: key, trick, knack

Expresiones frecuentes: secret of success, secret ingredient, secret to something, the real secret

secreto, privacidad

Situación en la que lo que ocurre se mantiene oculto a los demás.

En inglés sencillo: A state of privacy in which other people do not know what is happening.

• They met in secret.
• We planned the party in secret.
• The two leaders held talks in secret for several months.

Cómo se usa: in secret (They arranged the surprise in secret.)

Sinónimos: secrecy, privacy

Antónimos: openness

Expresiones frecuentes: in secret, meet in secret, work in secret

secreto, oculto

Que se mantiene oculto a la mayoría o solo conocen unas pocas personas.

En inglés sencillo: Hidden from most people or known only to a few.

• This is a secret door.
• They held a secret meeting last night.
• We kept the birthday plans secret from Dad.

Cómo se usa: keep something secret (They kept their plans secret.); secret from someone (She kept the news secret from her parents.)

Sinónimos: hidden, confidential, private

Antónimos: public, open

Expresiones frecuentes: secret diary, secret meeting, secret agent, keep something secret