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Main Entry:	fake
Part of Speech:	adjective
Definition:	false, imitation
Synonyms:	affected, artificial, assumed, bogus, counterfeit, fictitious, forged, fraudulent, make-believe, mock, phony, pretended, pseudo*, reproduction, sham, simulated, spurious, concocted, fabricated, invented
Notes:	a fake is a work of art that is deliberately made or altered to appear better, older, or other than what it is; a forgery is a fraudulent imitation of another thing that already exists
Antonyms:	genuine, original, real, true, truthful

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Main Entry:	fake
Part of Speech:	noun
Definition:	imposter, copy
Synonyms:	actor, charlatan, cheat, counterfeit, deception, fabrication, flimflam, forgery, fraud, hoax, imitation, imposition, imposture, make-believe, mountebank, phony, plant, pretender, pretense, pseudo, reproduction, scam, sham, sleight, spoof, swindle, trick, bluffer, faker, four-flusher, gold brick, junque, put-on
Antonyms:	original, reality

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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

* = informal/non-formal usage

Main Entry:	bastard
Part of Speech:	adjective
Definition:	illegitimate
Synonyms:	adulterated, counterfeit, fake, false, imperfect, impure, inferior, irregular, misbegotten, mixed, mongrel, natural, phony, sham, spurious, baseborn, misborn, suppositious, ungenuine
Antonyms:	legitimate

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:	bogus
Part of Speech:	adjective
Definition:	counterfeit
Synonyms:	artificial, dummy, ersatz, fake, false, fictitious, forged, fraudulent, imitation, phony, pretended, pseudo, sham, simulated, spurious, not what it is cracked up to be
Antonyms:	authentic, genuine, real

Main Entry:	charade
Part of Speech:	noun
Definition:	pretense
Synonyms:	deception, disguise, fake, farce, make-believe, mimicry, pageant, parody, pretension, travesty, trick, pantomime, pretentiousness, put-on

Main Entry:	charlatan
Part of Speech:	noun
Definition:	swindler
Synonyms:	cheat, con, con artist, fake, fraud, mountebank, phony, pretender, quack, sham, imposter, rip-off artist

Main Entry:	contrived
Part of Speech:	adjective
Definition:	overly planned
Synonyms:	affected, artificial, elaborate, fake, false, forced, labored, overdone, phony, strained, unnatural, manipulated, recherché, unspontaneous

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:	deceive
Part of Speech:	verb
Definition:	mislead; be dishonest
Synonyms:	bamboozle, beat, beguile, betray, bilk, burn, cheat, circumvent, clip, con, cozen, defraud, delude, disappoint, double-cross, dupe, ensnare, entrap, fake, falsify, fleece, fool, gouge, gull, hoax, hoodwink, hook, humbug, outwit, put on, rob, scam, screw, sell, skin, swindle, take advantage of, take in, trick, victimize, beat out of, buffalo, cross up, impose upon, lead on, play joke on, pull fast one, suck in, take for, take for ride, take to cleaners
Antonyms:	be honest

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Main Entry:	deceptive
Part of Speech:	adjective
Definition:	dishonest
Synonyms:	ambiguous, bum, catchy, crafty, cunning, deceitful, delusive, designing, disingenuous, fake, fallacious, false, fishy, foxy, fraudulent, illusory, indirect, insidious, lying, misleading, mock, oblique, off, phony, plausible, rascal, roguish, scheming, seeming, serpentine, shifty, slick, slippery, sly, sneaky, snide, specious, spurious, subtle, treacherous, tricky, two-faced*, underhand, underhanded, unreliable, wily, astucious, beguiling, deceiving, deluding, delusory, imposturous
Antonyms:	forthright, frank, honest, open, truthful, upright

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Main Entry:	decoy
Part of Speech:	noun
Definition:	bait, trap
Synonyms:	attraction, beard, blind, booster, camouflage, catch, chicanery, come-on, deception, enticement, facade, fake, front, imitation, inducement, lure, plant, pretense, sitting duck, snare, stick, stool pigeon, temptation, trick, trickery, allurement, blow off, chicane, drawing card, ensnarement, inveiglement, nark, seducement, shill, stoolie

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Main Entry:	disguise
Part of Speech:	verb
Definition:	mask; misrepresent
Synonyms:	affect, age, alter, antique, assume, beard, belie, camouflage, change, cloak, color, conceal, counterfeit, cover, deceive, dissemble, dissimulate, dress up, fake, falsify, feign, front, fudge, garble, hide, make up, masquerade, muffle, obfuscate, obscure, pretend, put on an act, redo, screen, secrete, sham, shroud, simulate, touch up, varnish, veil, whitewash*, cover up, doctor up, gloss over, make like, put on a false front, put on a front, put up a front, wear cheaters
Antonyms:	expose, open, represent, reveal, uncover, unmask

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Main Entry:	disguised
Part of Speech:	adjective
Definition:	unrecognizable
Synonyms:	camouflaged, changed, cloaked, covered, covert, fake, false, feigned, hidden, masked, pretend, undercover, incog
Antonyms:	bare, open, uncovered, recognizable, revealed, unmasked

Main Entry:	dissemble
Part of Speech:	verb
Definition:	disguise, pretend
Synonyms:	affect, camouflage, cloak, conceal, counterfeit, cover, dissimulate, double-talk, dress up, fake, falsify, feign, hide, let on, mask, pass, play possum, pussyfoot, put on an act, sham, shroud, signify, simulate, stonewall, whitewash, cover up, doublespeak, four-flush, make like, put on a false front, put on a front, put up a front, put up a smoke screen, shuck and jive
Antonyms:	admit, allow

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Main Entry:	dissimulate
Part of Speech:	verb
Definition:	conceal, disguise
Synonyms:	beard*, camouflage, cloak, deceive, dissemble, dress up, fake, feign, hide, make-believe, mask, pretend, present a false face, present a false front
Antonyms:	be honest

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Main Entry:	distort
Part of Speech:	verb
Definition:	deform; falsify
Synonyms:	alter, angle, belie, bend, bias, buckle, change, collapse, color, con, contort, crush, curve, deceive, decline, deteriorate, deviate, disfigure, doctor, fake, fudge, garble, knot, lie, mangle, melt, misconstrue, misinterpret, misrepresent, pervert, sag, scam, slant, slump, snow, torture, twist, warp, whitewash*, wind, wrench, writhe, gnarl, make out like, misshape, phony up, put one on, trump up
Antonyms:	beautify, straight, shape nicely

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Main Entry:	duplicate
Part of Speech:	noun
Definition:	copy, reproduction
Synonyms:	Xerox, carbon, carbon copy, chip off the old block, clone, companion, coordinate, copycat, correlate, counterfeit, counterpart, dead ringer, ditto, double, dupe, facsimile, fake, fellow, imitation, likeness, match, mate, obverse, parallel, phony, photocopy, pirate, reciprocal, repetition, replica, second, similarity, spitting image, twin, analogue, counterscript, duplication, germination, knockoff, lookalike, photostat, recurrence, replication, repro, ringer, stat
Antonyms:	archetype, model, original, prototype

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Main Entry:	duplicate
Part of Speech:	verb
Definition:	make a copy; repeat
Synonyms:	Xerox, clone, copy, counterfeit, ditto, double, dupe, echo, fake, imitate, knock off, manifold, mirror, multiply, phony, photocopy, pirate, redo, redouble, reproduce, rework, trace, act like, do a takeoff, do again, do like, dualize, go like, make like, make replica, make twofold, mimeo, photostat, reduplicate, remake, replicate, repro, stat, take off as