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  • 71trick — 1. noun 1) he s capable of any mean trick their clever little trick cost us $500 Syn: stratagem, ploy, ruse, scheme, device, maneuver, contrivance, machination, artifice, wile, dodge; deceit, deception, trickery …

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  • 72disillude — dis·illude …

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  • 73bluff — [adj] abrupt barefaced, bearish, blunt, blustering, breviloquent, brief, brusque, candid, crusty, curt, direct, downright, forthright, frank, gruff, hearty, honest, laconic, no nonsense, open, outspoken, plain spoken, rough, rude, short, short… …

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  • 74delude — [v] deceive, fool beguile, betray, bluff, caboodle*, cheat, con, cozen, disinform, do a number on*, double cross, dupe*, gull*, hoax*, hoodwink*, illude, impose on, jive*, juggle*, lead up garden path*, misguide, mislead, mousetrap*, outfox, play …

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  • 75double-cross — [v] betray beguile, bluff, cheat, con, cross, deceive, defraud, four flush*, hoodwink*, humbug*, illude, juggle, mislead, sell, sell out*, split, swindle, take in, trick, two time*; concepts 7,19,59 Ant. be open, tell truth …

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  • 76juggle — [v] mislead, falsify; handle several things at once alter, beguile, betray, bluff, change, conjure, delude, disguise, doctor*, doublecross, fix, humbug*, illude, maneuver, manipulate, misrepresent, modify, perform magic, prestidigitate, shuffle,… …

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  • 77mislead — [v] give someone the wrong idea, information bait, beguile, betray, bilk, bluff, bunk, cheat, cozen, deceive, defraud, delude, double cross*, dupe, enmesh, ensnare, entangle, entice, fool, fudge*, gull, hoax, hoodwink*, hose*, illude, inveigle,… …

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  • 78allude / elude —    Allude means to suggest indirectly : Leticia can t speak to her husband without alluding to his affair with Martha Snodgrass.    Elude means to dodge or escape : Serious relationships always seemed to elude him. Also beware of illude to… …

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  • 79allude / elude —    Allude means to suggest indirectly : Leticia can t speak to her husband without alluding to his affair with Martha Snodgrass.    Elude means to dodge or escape : Serious relationships always seemed to elude him. Also beware of illude to… …

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  • 80disillude — |dis+ transitive verb ( ed/ ing/ s) Etymology: dis (I) + illude : disillusion …

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