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Vocabulary: lies and truth - English lesson
Telling Lies or telling The Truth? Being Honest or Dishonest? The theme says it all... Quite topical in varied fields... You'll have to know where to stand and react to what you hear or what you're living...
A FEW VERBS, ADJECTIVES and NOUNS too...
To be dishonest/ crooked | Dishonesty |
To be unfaithful to sb To be disloyal to sb | Untrustworthy |
Distrustful/ mistrustful | (To) distrust (To) mistrust |
To lie (regular verb): to tell lies => lying | A lie/ a falsehood |
An untruth | A fib |
A white lie | A liar |
To deceive sb : to mislead by a false appearance or statement; delude. | deceitful |
Deceiving Misleading | deceit deception |
To fool sb To take sb in | to trick sb To con sb |
To mislead sb | to conceal stg from sb to hide stg from sb |
To pretend to do | A pretence |
Insincere/ hypocritical | A hypocrite |
Insincerity/ hypocrisy | Affectation |
Affected | To put on an act |
FAUX-AMI : to state (something) as true or as a fact: to claim (He claims to know the chef... )
To cheat | To cheat sb |
To betray | A betrayal |
Treason | A traitor |
Treacherous | Treachery |
A conspiracy | A plot |
An impostor | To pose as |
Crafty/ cunning | Sly |
EXPRESSIONS:
- To do stg under the pretence of: using as a false reason or explanation ( to hide the real purpose of something)
- To play a double game=> double dealing: not to be two-faced or not to do double-dealing with others
- To conspire with somebody to do something: to demand by or as if by a right.
- To plot against sb/ to do stg: to plan secretly.
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