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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | makeup, form |
| Synonyms: | anatomy, architecture, arrangement, build, complex, configuration, conformation, construction, design, fabric, fabrication, format, formation, frame, framework, interrelation, make, morphology, network, order, organization, skeleton, system, texture |
| Main Entry: | trick |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | deceit |
| Synonyms: | ambush, artifice, blind, bluff, casuistry, cheat, chicanery, circumvention, con*, concealment, conspiracy, conundrum, cover, deception, decoy, delusion, device, disguise, distortion, dodge*, double-dealing, duplicity, equivocation, evasion, fabrication, fake, falsehood, feint, forgery, fraud, game, gimmick, hoax, illusion, imposition, imposture, intrigue, invention, machination, maneuver, perjury, plot, ploy, pretense, ruse, snare, stratagem, subterfuge, swindle, trap, treachery, wile |
| Antonyms: | frankness, honesty |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | yarn |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | story, often long and made-up |
| Synonyms: | adventure, alibi, anecdote, fable, fabrication, fairy tale, lie, line, narrative, potboiler, prose, sea story, song and dance, song*, string, tale, tall story, tall tale |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | figment of the imagination |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | fiction of the mind |
| Synonyms: | creation of the brain, creature of the imagination, fabrication, fantasy, fiction, figment, imagination, invention, phantom of the mind, whimsy, wildest dream |
| Main Entry: | manufacturing |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | production |
| Synonyms: | accomplishment, assembling, assembly, casting, completion, composing, composition, construction, creation, doing, erection, fabrication, finishing, forging, formation, making, manufacture, mass-production, preparing, produce, tooling |
| Main Entry: | making |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | imagination |
| Synonyms: | authoring, building, causation, composition, conception, constituting, construction, contriving, designing, devising, fabrication, fancying, fashioning, forging, formulation, occasioning, origination, performing, planning, producing, production, shaping |
| Main Entry: | prevarication |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | lie |
| Synonyms: | deception, dishonesty, fabrication, falsehood, fib, tale, untruth |
| Main Entry: | whopper |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | lie |
| Synonyms: | big, fabrication, falsehood, remarkable, story, untruth |
| Main Entry: | whopper |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | big lie |
| Synonyms: | fabrication, falsehood, lie, story, tale, untruth |
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