SAT/GRE Vocabulary: Words for Lies (মিথ্যা)

Lie - মিথ্যা

Apocryphal - সন্দেহজনক, অপ্রমাণিক

Canard - মিথ্যা, গুজব

Chicanery - কপটতা

Dissemble - ছদ্মবেশ ধারন করা

Duplicity - প্রতারণা

Equivocate - বাকচাতুরী করা

Erroneous - ভ্রমপূর্ণ

Fallacious - প্রতারণাপূর্ণ

Feigned - ছলনাপূর্ণ

Guile - চাতুরি

Mendacious - অসত্য

Perfidy - বিশ্বাসভঙ্গ, বিশ্বাসঘাতকতা

Prevaricate - কৌশলে সত্যকে এড়িয়ে যাওয়া

Specious - আপাতদৃষ্টিতে সত্য বলে মনে হলেও (আসলে তা সত্য নয়) এমন

Spurious - কৃত্রিম, মিথ্যা

Source: GREC CENTRE,

Example Sentences

Apocryphal: The story that Newton was hit on the head by an apple is probably apocryphal.
Canard: The rumour about the exam being cancelled was a canard.
Chicanery: The election was won through bribery and chicanery.
Dissemble: He tried to dissemble his disappointment with a smile.
Duplicity: She was shocked by the duplicity of a friend she had trusted for years.
Equivocate: When asked about the budget, the spokesman began to equivocate.
Erroneous: The article was withdrawn because it was based on erroneous data.
Fallacious: It is fallacious to assume that expensive schools always teach better.
Feigned: He feigned illness to avoid the meeting.
Guile: The fox in the fable wins by guile, not strength.
Mendacious: The court rejected the mendacious testimony of the witness.
Perfidy: Mir Jafar's name has become a byword for perfidy.
Prevaricate: Stop prevaricating and tell us whether you signed the paper.
Specious: The advertisement makes a specious claim about instant weight loss.
Spurious: The shop was fined for selling spurious medicines.