| A | B |
|---|
| illusory | (adj) not real; deceptive |
| erroneous | (adj) wrong; mistaken |
| fallacy | (n) mistaken belief; wrong or false idea |
| rectify | (v) to correct or make right |
| guile | (n) cunning; deceitfulness; wiliness |
| belie | (v) to give a false impression; to contradict |
| equivocate | (v) to hedge; to lie |
| dupe | (n) someone who is easily deceived |
| hypocrisy | (n) opposite of sincerity |
| devious | (adj) roundabout; opposite of straightforward |
| dupe | (v) to deceive; (n) someone who is easily deceived |
| furtive | (adj) secretive; sneaky |
| surreptitious | (adj) furtive; done by stealth |
| apocryphal | (adj) disputed; false |
| charlatan | (n) quack; someone falsely claiming expertise or knowledge |
| spurious | (adj) bogus, illegitimate, false |
| beguile | (v) to mislead deceitfully; to pass time |
| misnomer | (n) incorrect name, label, designation |
| duplicity | (n) trickery or hypocrisy |
| fallacious | (adj) false |
| debunk | (v) to expose or ridicule as worthless and phony |
| equivocal | (adj) ambiguous, evasive, or misleading (perhaps intentionally) |
| hypocrite | (n) an insincere person or one who pretends virtue |
