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deception, n.
(deceptions)

an illusory feat; considered magical by naive observers
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conjuration conjuring trick deception illusion legerdemain magic magic trick thaumaturgy trick

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magical magician

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illusionist

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performance

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card trick prestidigitation, sleight of hand

the act of deceiving
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deceit deception dissembling dissimulation

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deceive deceive

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dissimulate

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falsification, misrepresentation

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fakery indirection wile, shenanigan, trickery, chicanery, chicane, guile duplicity, double-dealing cheat, cheating illusion, delusion, head game pretense, pretence, pretending, simulation, feigning imposture, impersonation obscurantism bluff, four flush take-in

a misleading falsehood
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deceit deception misrepresentation

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misrepresent misrepresent

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deceive

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bill of goods humbug, snake oil half-truth facade, window dressing exaggeration, overstatement, magnification snow job pretense, pretence, feigning, dissembling subterfuge, blind trickery, hocus-pocus, slickness, hanky panky, jiggery-pokery, skulduggery, skullduggery fraudulence, duplicity evasion, equivocation

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falsity, untruth, falsehood