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Hoax :: Hoax (n.) A deception for mockery or mischief; a deceptive trick or story; a practical joke.

Fraud :: Fraud (n.) Deception deliberately practiced with a view to gaining an unlawful or unfair advantage; artifice by which the right or interest of another is injured; injurious stratagem; deceit; trick.

Jilt :: Jilt (v. i.) To play the jilt; to practice deception in love; to discard lovers capriciously.

Lie :: Lie (n.) A falsehood uttered or acted for the purpose of deception; an intentional violation of truth; an untruth spoken with the intention to deceive.

Victimize :: Victimize (v. t.) To make a victim of, esp. by deception; to dupe; to cheat..

Cheat :: Cheat (n.) An act of deception or fraud; that which is the means of fraud or deception; a fraud; a trick; imposition; imposture.

Ingannation :: Ingannation (n.) Cheat; deception.

Juggle :: Juggle (n.) An imposture; a deception.

Disguise :: Disguise (n.) Artificial language or manner assumed for deception; false appearance; counterfeit semblance or show.

Disabuse :: Disabuse (v. t.) To set free from mistakes; to undeceive; to disengage from fallacy or deception; to set right.

Imposture :: Imposture (n.) The act or conduct of an impostor; deception practiced under a false or assumed character; fraud or imposition; cheating.

Shopshift :: Shopshift (n.) The trick of a shopkeeper; deception.

Self-abuse :: Self-abuse (n.) Self-deception; delusion.

Flam :: Flam (n.) A freak or whim; also, a falsehood; a lie; an illusory pretext; deception; delusion..

Duplicity :: Duplicity (n.) Doubleness of heart or speech; insincerity; a sustained form of deception which consists in entertaining or pretending to entertain one of feelings, and acting as if influenced by another; bad faith..

Cog :: Cog (v. t.) To obtrude or thrust in, by falsehood or deception; as, to cog in a word; to palm off..

Circumvention :: Circumvention (n.) The act of prevailing over another by arts, address, or fraud; deception; fraud; imposture; delusion..

Legerdemain :: Legerdemain (n.) Sleight of hand; a trick of sleight of hand; hence, any artful deception or trick..

Circumvent :: Circumvent (v. t.) To gain advantage over by arts, stratagem, or deception; to decieve; to delude; to get around..

Disguise :: Disguise (n.) A dress or exterior put on for purposes of concealment or of deception; as, persons doing unlawful acts in disguise are subject to heavy penalties..

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