Vocabulary - Word Group 23

Word group : Falsehood

Sr. No	Word	Meaning	Sentence
1	Apocryphal	(of a story or statement) of doubtful authenticity, although widely circulated as being true	An apocryphal story about a former president
2	Canard	An unfounded rumour or story	The old canard that LA is cultural wasteland
3	Chicanery	The use of deception or subterfuge to achieve one’s purpose	Storyline packed with political chicanery
4	Duplicity	Deceitfulness	The president was accused of duplicity in his dealings with Congress
5	Equivocate	Use ambiguous language so as to conceal the truth or avoid committing oneself	The government have equivocated too often in the past
6	Erroneous	Incorrect	Employers sometimes make erroneous assumptions
7	Ersatz	(of a product) made or used as substitute, typically an inferior one, for something else	Ersatz coffee
8	Fallacious	Based on a mistake or belief	Fallacious arguments
9	Feigned	Simulated or pretended; insincere	Her eyes widened with feigned shock
10	Guile	Sly or cunning intelligence	He used all his guile and guts to free himself from the muddle he was in
11	Mendacious/ Mendacity	Characterized by malice; intending or intended to do harm	He found guilty of malicious damage
12	Perfidy	The state of being deceitful and untrustworthy	It was an example of his perfidy
13	Prevaricate	Speak or act in an evasive way	He seemed to prevaricate when journalists asked pointed questions
14	Specious	Superficially plausible, but actually wrong	A specious argument
15	spurious	Not being what it purports to be; false or fake	Separating authentic and spurious claims