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deception
A	noun
	1	magic trick, conjuring trick, trick, magic, legerdemain, conjuration, illusion, deception
				an illusory feat; considered magical by naive observers
		Category Tree: act; human action; human activity ╚activity ╚diversion; recreation ╚entertainment; amusement ╚show ╚presentation; presentment; demonstration ╚performance ╚magic trick, conjuring trick, trick, magic, legerdemain, conjuration, illusion, deception ╚prestidigitation; sleight of hand ╚card trick
	2	deception, deceit, dissembling, dissimulation
				the act of deceiving
		Category Tree: act; human action; human activity ╚activity ╚wrongdoing; wrongful conduct; misconduct; actus reus ╚falsification; misrepresentaation ╚deception, deceit, dissembling, dissimulation ╚bluff; four flush ╚obscurantism ╚imposture; impersonation ╚pretense; pretence; pretending; simulation; feigning ╚delusion; illusion; head game ╚cheat; cheating ╚duplicity; double-dealing ╚trickery; chicanery; chicane; guile; wile; shenanigan ╚indirection ╚fakery
	3	misrepresentation, deceit, deception
				a misleading falsehood
		Category Tree: abstraction ╚relation ╚social relation ╚communication ╚message; content; subject matter; substance ╚statement ╚falsehood; falsity; untruth; false statement ╚misrepresentation, deceit, deception ╚fraudulence; duplicity ╚trickery; hocus-pocus; slickness; hanky panky; jiggery-pokery; skulduggery; skullduggery ╚subterfuge; blind ╚pretense; pretence; feigning; dissembling ╚snow job ╚exaggeration; overstatement; magnification ╚facade; window dressing ╚half-truth ╚humbug; snake oil ╚bill of goods

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