Expositions Flash cards

Bolster

to support  (reinforce, butress)

Corroborate

to confirm

Substantiate

Prove with evidence

Unsubstantiated

not proving with evidence

Bear out

with support/confirm

Impede

delay/prevent

Hamper/Stymie

To hinder (make difficult)

Thwart

to step back, prevent

Obstruction

to prevent

Veracity

truthfulness or accuracy

Mendacious

Lying

prevaricate

evade the truth

verisimiltude

quality of something real

specious

misleadingly true

meretricious

looks good —> cheap

spurious

criticizes on argument 

probity

honesty; intergrity

guile

clever deception

Artifice

the trick itself

chicanery

to use deceit to get something; legal

vulpine

skilled in deception

machiacellian

politics

duplicity

double sided