Vocabulary Lesson 37: True or False!

Long D. (Vietnam)
Today's roots:

verax true
genuinus natural
candere to shine
apo- away
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  1. candor
    the quality of being honest and straightforward
  2. candid
    openly straightforward and direct without secretiveness
  3. forthright
    directly and without evasion; not roundabout
  4. frank
    characterized by directness in manner or speech
  5. disingenuous
    not straightforward or candid
  6. ingenuous
    characterized by an inability to mask your feelings
  7. fraud
    intentional deception resulting in injury to another person
  8. fraudulent
    intended to deceive
  9. equivocal
    open to two or more interpretations
  10. equivocate
    be deliberately ambiguous or unclear
  11. equivocation
    intentional vagueness or ambiguity
  12. affect
    make believe with the intent to deceive
  13. feign
    make believe with the intent to deceive
  14. impersonate
    pretend to be someone you are not
  15. veracity
    unwillingness to tell lies
  16. veracious
    habitually speaking the truth
  17. sincere
    open and genuine; not deceitful
  18. fallacious
    containing or based on incorrect reasoning
  19. fallacy
    a misconception resulting from incorrect reasoning
  20. facade
    a showy misrepresentation to conceal something unpleasant
  21. debunk
    expose while ridiculing
  22. conceal
    prevent from being seen or discovered
  23. concealed
    not accessible to view
  24. camouflage
    the act of concealing the identity of something
  25. sham
    something that is a counterfeit; not what it seems to be
  26. incorrigible
    impervious to correction by punishment
  27. evasion
    the act of physically escaping from something
  28. evasive
    avoiding or escaping from difficulty or danger
  29. conceive
    have the idea for
Created on Sun Jun 29 21:53:57 EDT 2014 (updated Fri Jul 04 21:59:14 EDT 2014)

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