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Main Entry:	bluff
Part of Speech:	verb
Definition:	deceive
Synonyms:	affect, beguile, betray, con, counterfeit, defraud, delude, double-cross, fake, feign, fool, humbug, juggle, lie, mislead, pretend, put on, sham, shuck, simulate, snow, take in, trick, bunco, fake out, illude, jive, psych out
Antonyms:	come clean, reveal, tell truth

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Main Entry:	bluff
Part of Speech:	noun
Definition:	boast; deceit
Synonyms:	bluster, bravado, deception, delusion, facade, fake, false front, feint, fraud, front, humbug, lie, pretense, pretext, ruse, sham, show, snow, stall, subterfuge, trick, braggadocio, bragging, false colors, jiving

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Main Entry:	bluff
Part of Speech:	noun
Definition:	precipice
Synonyms:	bank, cliff, escarpment, headland, hill, mountain, peak, promontory, ridge, rock, crag

Main Entry:	affect
Part of Speech:	verb
Definition:	pretend, imitate
Synonyms:	act, adopt, assume, bluff, contrive, counterfeit, fake, feign, put on, sham*, simulate, take on, aspire to, do a bit, lay it on thick, make out like, playact, put up a front
Notes:	as a noun, affect means 'a feeling or emotion,' whereas effect means 'the result or consequence of some action or process'; as a verb, to affect means 'to exert an influence upon,' and implies the action of a stimulus that can produce a response or reaction, whereas to effect means 'to bring about as a result' effect is a noun referring to a thing, but if you mean an action, that is affect; if you want the verb meaning 'achieve, bring about,' that is effect

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Main Entry:	assume
Part of Speech:	verb
Definition:	pretend
Synonyms:	act, adopt, affect, bluff, counterfeit, fake, feign, imitate, impersonate, mimic, pretend, put on, simulate

Main Entry:	beguile
Part of Speech:	verb
Definition:	fool
Synonyms:	betray, bluff, burn, cheat, chisel, con, deceive, delude, double-cross, dupe, entice, exploit, finesse, flimflam, gyp, have, hoodwink, jockey, juggle, lure, manipulate, mislead, play, rook, scam, seduce, shave, snow, stick, string along, take, take in, trick, impose on, play for a sucker, rope in, suck in

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Main Entry:	betray
Part of Speech:	verb
Definition:	be disloyal
Synonyms:	abandon, be unfaithful, bite the hand that feeds you, blow the whistle, bluff, break faith, break promise, break trust, break with, commit treason, cross, deceive, deliver up, delude, desert, double-cross, finger, forsake, go back on, inform against, inform on, jilt, knife, let down, mislead, play Judas, play false, seduce, sell down the river, sell out, stab in the back, take in*, trick, turn in, turn informer, turn state's evidence, walk out on
Antonyms:	be faithful, be loyal, defend, protect, support

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Main Entry:	bluster
Part of Speech:	noun
Definition:	bullying, intimidation
Synonyms:	bluff, boasting, bombast, bravado, swagger, boisterousness, braggadocio, bragging, crowing, rabidity, rampancy, swaggering

Main Entry:	bravado
Part of Speech:	noun
Definition:	boastfulness
Synonyms:	blowing, bluff, bluster, boasting, bombast, bullying, guts, hot air, pomposity, pretension, raging, railing, rant, swelling, talk, braggadocio, bragging, crowing, fancy talk, fanfaronade, fuming, gasconade, grandiosity, selfglorification, storming, swaggering, tall talk
Antonyms:	cowardice, fear, modesty, restraint, fearfulness

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Main Entry:	cheat
Part of Speech:	noun
Definition:	person who fools others
Synonyms:	bluff, charlatan, chiseler, con artist, crook, deceiver, decoy, fake, hypocrite, impostor, jockey, pretender, quack, rascal, rogue, shyster, swindler, trickster, confidence operator, conniver, cozener, defrauder, dodger, double-crosser, double-dealer, enticer, inveigler, masquerader, scammer, shark, sharper

Main Entry:	cliff
Part of Speech:	noun
Definition:	overhang on hill or mountain
Synonyms:	bluff, escarpment, face, precipice, scar, wall, crag, rock face, rocky height, scarp, steep rock

Main Entry:	con
Part of Speech:	noun
Definition:	trick
Synonyms:	bluff, cheat, crime, deception, double-cross, dupe, fraud, graft, mockery, swindle, take in, gold brick
Antonyms:	honesty, truthfulness

Main Entry:	counterfeit
Part of Speech:	verb
Definition:	make deceitful imitation
Synonyms:	Xerox, affect, ape, assume, bluff, carbon, cheat, clone, coin, copy, defraud, delude, ditto, do, dupe, fabricate, fake, feign, forge, imitate, impersonate, knock off, mimic, mint, phony, pretend, put on, sham, simulate, act like, circulate bad money, do like, go like, make like, make money, mimeo, phony up, stat
Antonyms:	be honest

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Main Entry:	deception
Part of Speech:	noun
Definition:	trick
Synonyms:	artifice, bilk, bluff, catch, cheat, chicane, con, con game, confidence game, cover-up, crock, decoy, device, dodge, fallacy, fast one, fast shuffle, feint, fib, fraud, gimmick, hoax, hogwash, hustle, illusion, imposture, jive, lie, malarkey, mare's-nest, pretext, ride, ruse, scam, sham, shift, shuck, snare, snow job, stall, sting, story, stratagem, subterfuge, swindle, trap, trick, whitewash, wile, wrinkle

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Main Entry:	delude
Part of Speech:	verb
Definition:	deceive, fool
Synonyms:	beguile, betray, bluff, cheat, con, cozen, double-cross, dupe, gull, hoax, hoodwink, juggle, mislead, outfox, snow, string along, sucker, take in, trick, caboodle, disinform, do a number on, illude, impose on, jive*, lead up garden path, misguide, mousetrap, play trick on
Antonyms:	be truthful

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Main Entry:	double-cross
Part of Speech:	verb
Definition:	to deceive or betray someone
Synonyms:	beguile, betray, bluff, cheat, con, cross, deceive, defraud, dupe, hoodwink, humbug, juggle, mislead, scam, sell, sell out, sell out, split, stab in the back, swindle, take in, trick, two-time, two-time, double deal, four-flush, illude, sell down the river
Antonyms:	be open, tell truth

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Main Entry:	facade
Part of Speech:	noun
Definition:	appearance, often deceptive
Synonyms:	beard, bluff, color, disguise, exterior, face, fake, false front, front, guise, look, mask, phony, pretense, semblance, show, veneer, window dressing*, false colors, frontage, put-on
Antonyms:	character, personality

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Main Entry:	fake
Part of Speech:	verb
Definition:	pretend
Synonyms:	act, affect, assume, bluff, copy, counterfeit, disguise, dissimulate, fabricate, feign, forge, put on, put on an act*, sham, simulate, spoof

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Main Entry:	feign
Part of Speech:	verb
Definition:	pretend
Synonyms:	act, affect, assume, bluff, counterfeit, devise, dissemble, dissimulate, fabricate, fake, forge, imagine, imitate, invent, play, play possum, put on, sham, simulate, stonewall, do a bit, four-flush, give appearance of, make show of, phony up, put on act, put up a front
Antonyms:	be true

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Main Entry:	feint
Part of Speech:	noun
Definition:	pretense
Synonyms:	artifice, bait, blind, bluff, cheat, deceit, distraction, dodge, duck, expedient, fake, gambit, hoax, imposture, make-believe, maneuver, play, ploy, pretension, pretext, ruse, sham*, shift, snare, stall, stratagem, subterfuge, trick, wile, hoodwinking, mock attack
Antonyms:	truth