Mrs. Dougherty Week 5 Vocab (FSWC)

Duplicity

falseness of character

Chicanery

scheming; trickery

Subterfuge

trick to gain advantage

Dupe

to trick

Perfidious

faithless to one's word

Abscond

to sneak away

Mendacious

characterized by dishonesty

Foist

to place and unwelcome burden

Duress

force or threats to obtain compliance

Cabal

a secret group

Fabricate

to lie; to make up

Charlatan

trickster

Fawning

excessive flattery

Fulsome

obnoxious through excessive praise

Artifice

a lie of convenience

Usurp

to seize unlawfully or by force

Guile

cleverness; trickery

Prevarication

dishonest or evasive statements

Guise

surface appearance

Fallacious

based on faulty reasoning

Feint

to make a deceptive move

Canard

an unproven lie or rumor

Factitious

artificially created

Repress

to hold back opinions or emotions