Week 9

Question 1

ruse

Answer 1

n. a clever trick

Question 2

bilk

Answer 2

v. to swindle

Question 3

charlatan

Answer 3

n. one who claims to have more knowledge than is true

Question 4

chicanery

Answer 4

n verbal trickery or deception

Question 5

duplicity

Answer 5

n. deceitfulness in speech or conduct; double dealing

Question 6

equivocate

Answer 6

v. to lie by telling half-truths

Question 7

guile

Answer 7

n. crafty or artful deception

Question 8

suffuse

Answer 8

v. to spread or flood through or over (something)

Question 9

acrid

Answer 9

adj. sharp, biting, irritating to the taste or smell

Question 10

plaintive

Answer 10

adj. expressing sorrow or melancholy; mournful