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trick
noun as in deceit
Strongest matches
Strong matches
- ambush
- artifice
- blind
- bluff
- casuistry
- cheat
- chicanery
- circumvention
- con
- concealment
- conundrum
- cover
- decoy
- delusion
- disguise
- dodge
- double-dealing
- duplicity
- equivocation
- evasion
- fabrication
- fake
- falsehood
- feint
- forgery
- game
- imposition
- imposture
- intrigue
- invention
- machination
- perjury
- pretense
- snare
- stratagem
- subterfuge
- swindle
- treachery
- wile
noun as in prank, joke
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Weak matches
noun as in expertise, know-how
noun as in characteristic, habit
verb as in fool; deceive
Example Sentences
In desperate voice notes to his family, the 40-year-old says he is part of a group of South Africans tricked into fighting in the war, and is desperate to return home.
The trick here is getting the right ratio of liquid to sugar and not rushish the simmer.
She can predict someone’s destiny by squeezing their hand, the party trick Christopher Walken did in “The Dead Zone.”
Call it the parade’s final magic trick: making hundreds of thousands of cubic feet of helium, dozens of floats, and throngs of fans vanish.
Along the way, they are taught how to juggle and perform magic tricks.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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