I don't think so but they are living
You need to show the sentence first
Answer: Spread/ Reverberated
Explanation:
<em>Rumors of a new principal </em><em><u>spread</u></em><em> down the halls of the hectic and chaotic high school. </em>
As there are no options given, I gave the best response I could.
When rumors are passed along from person to person, it is said to be spread. If there are rumors of a new principal therefore, the most likely word to fill the space would have to be "spread" which would show that the rumors of a new principal are being passed around the school.
As with any author's decision to use 1st person, her intention most likely -- in this story -- was to get her readers to go along for the ride into madness and cultivate a certain amount of sympathy for the narrator and her plight. The constant use of "I" puts readers in the narrator’s head and allows them to empathize with her.