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Vocabulary: lies and truth

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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10. Tom’s look made me wonder what trick he was planning to surprise his friends.

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