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     #547.  Dupe.—­ N. dupe, gull, gudgeon, gobemouche[obs3], cull*,
cully[obs3], victim, pigeon, April fool[obs3]; jay*, sucker*; laughingstock &c 857; Cyclops, simple Simon, flat; greenhorn; fool &c 501; puppet, cat’s paw. 
     V. be deceived &c 545, be the dupe of; fall into a trap; swallow the
bait, nibble at the bait; bite, catch a Tartar. 
     Adj. credulous &c 486; mistaken &c. (error) 495.

     #548.  Deceiver.—­ N. deceiver &c (deceive &c 545); dissembler,
hypocrite; sophist, Pharisee, Jesuit, Mawworm[obs3], Pecksniff, Joseph Surface, Tartufe[obs3], Janus; serpent, snake in the grass, cockatrice, Judas, wolf in sheep’s clothing; jilt; shuffler|!, stool pigeon.
     liar &c (lie &c 544); story-teller, perjurer, false witness, menteur a
triple etage[Fr], Scapin[obs3]; bunko steerer* [U.S.], carpetbagger* [U.S.], capper* [U.S.], faker, fraud, four flusher*, horse coper[obs3], ringer*, spieler[obs3], straw bidder [U.S.].
     imposter, pretender, soi-disant[Fr], humbug; adventurer; Cagliostro,
Fernam Mendez Pinto; ass in lion’s skin &c (bungler) 701; actor &c (stage player) 599.
     quack, charlatan, mountebank, saltimbanco[obs3], saltimbanque[obs3],
empiric, quacksalver, medicaster[obs3], Rosicrucian, gypsy; man of straw.
     conjuror, juggler, trickster, prestidigitator, jockey; crimp, decoy,
decoy duck; rogue, knave, cheat; swindler &c (thief) 792; jobber. 
     Phr. “saint abroad and a devil at home” [Bunyan].

     #549.  Exaggeration.—­ N. exaggeration; expansion &c 194; hyperbole,
stretch, strain, coloring; high coloring, caricature, caricatura[obs3]; extravagance &c. (nonsense) 497; Baron Munchausen; men in buckram, yarn, fringe, embroidery, traveler’s tale; fish story, gooseberry*
     storm in a teacup; much ado about nothing &c (overestimation) 482;
puff, puffery &c (boasting) 884; rant &c (turgescence) 577[obs3].
     figure of speech, facon de parler[Fr]; stretch of fancy, stretch of
the imagination; flight of fancy &c (imagination) 515.
     false coloring &c (falsehood) 544; aggravation &c. 835. 
     V. exaggerate, magnify, pile up, aggravate; amplify &c (expand) 194;
overestimate &c 482; hyperbolize; overcharge, overstate, overdraw, overlay, overshoot the mark, overpraise; make over much, over the most of; strain, strain over a point; stretch, stretch a point; go great lengths; spin a long yarn; draw with a longbow, shoot with a longbow; deal in the marvelous.
     out-Herod Herod, run riot, talk at random.
     heighten, overcolor[obs3]; color highly, color too highly;
broder[obs3]; flourish; color &c. (misrepresent) 544; puff &c (boast) 884. 
     Adj. exaggerated &c. v.; overwrought; bombastic &c. (grandiloquent)
577; hyperbolical[obs3], on stilts; fabulous, extravagant, preposterous, egregious, outre[Fr], highflying[obs3]. 
     Adv. hyperbolically &c adj. 
     Phr. excitabat enim fluctus in simpulo [Lat][Cicero].