Synonyms of the word

bluff

• n. An act of bluffing; a false expression of the strength of one's position in order to intimidate; braggadocio.
• n. (poker) An attempt to represent oneself as holding a stronger hand than they actually do.
• n. (US, dated) The card game poker.
• n. One who bluffs; a bluffer.
• v. (poker) To make a bluff; to give the impression that one's hand is stronger than it is.
• v. (by analogy) To frighten or deter with a false show of strength or confidence; to give a false impression…
• v. To take advantage by bluffing.
• n. A high, steep bank, for example by a river or the sea, or beside a ravine or plain; a cliff with a broad…
• n. (Canadian Prairies) A small wood or stand of trees, typically poplar or willow.
• adj. Having a broad, flattened front.
• adj. Rising steeply with a flat or rounded front.
• adj. Surly; churlish; gruff; rough.
• adj. Abrupt; roughly frank; unceremonious; blunt; brusque.

affright

• n. (archaic) Great fear, terror, fright.
• v. (archaic, transitive) To terrify, to frighten, to inspire fright in.
• adj. afraid; terrified; frightened.

bank

• n. An institution where one can place and borrow money and take care of financial affairs.
• n. A branch office of such an institution.
• n. An underwriter or controller of a card game; also banque.
• n. A fund from deposits or contributions, to be used in transacting business; a joint stock or capital.
• n. (gambling) The sum of money etc. which the dealer or banker has as a fund from which to draw stakes and…
• n. (slang, uncountable) money; profit.
• n. In certain games, such as dominos, a fund of pieces from which the players are allowed to draw.
• n. A safe and guaranteed place of storage for and retrieval of important items or goods.
• n. A device used to store coins or currency.
• v. (intransitive) To deal with a bank or financial institution.
• v. (transitive) To put into a bank.
• n. (hydrology) An edge of river, lake, or other watercourse.
• n. (nautical, hydrology) An elevation, or rising ground, under the sea; a shallow area of shifting sand,…
• n. (geography) A slope of earth, sand, etc.; an embankment.
• n. (aviation) The incline of an aircraft, especially during a turn.
• n. (rail transport) An incline, a hill.
• n. A mass noun for a quantity of clouds.
• n. (mining) The face of the coal at which miners are working.
• n. (mining) A deposit of ore or coal, worked by excavations above water level.
• n. (mining) The ground at the top of a shaft.
• v. (intransitive, aviation) To roll or incline laterally in order to turn.
• v. (transitive) To cause (an aircraft) to bank.
• v. (transitive) To form into a bank or heap, to bank up.
• v. (transitive) To cover the embers of a fire with ashes in order to retain heat.
• v. (transitive) To raise a mound or dike about; to enclose, defend, or fortify with a bank; to embank.
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To pass by the banks of.
• n. A row or panel of items stored or grouped together.
• n. A row of keys on a musical keyboard or the equivalent on a typewriter keyboard.
• v. (transitive, order and arrangement) To arrange or order in a row.
• n. A bench, as for rowers in a galley; also, a tier of oars.
• n. A bench or seat for judges in court.
• n. The regular term of a court of law, or the full court sitting to hear arguments upon questions of law,…
• n. (archaic, printing) A kind of table used by printers.
• n. (music) A bench, or row of keys belonging to a keyboard, as in an organ.
• n. (uncountable) slang for money.

bold

• n. (obsolete) A dwelling; habitation; building.
• adj. Courageous, daring.
• adj. (typography, of typefaces) Having thicker strokes than the ordinary form of the typeface.
• adj. Presumptuous.
• adj. (Ireland) naughty, insolent, badly-behaved.
• adj. Full-bodied.
• adj. (Philippine English) naked, pornographic.
• v. (transitive) To make (a font or some text) bold.
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To make bold or daring.
• v. (intransitive, obsolete) To become bold.

deceit

• n. An act or practice intended to deceive; a trick.
• n. An act of deceiving someone.
• n. (uncountable) The state of being deceitful or deceptive.
• n. (law) The tort or fraudulent representation of a material fact made with knowledge of its falsity, or…

deception

• n. An instance of actions and/or schemes fabricated to mislead someone into believing a lie or inaccuracy.

direct

• adj. Proceeding without deviation or interruption.
• adj. Straight; not crooked, oblique, or circuitous; leading by the short or shortest way to a point or end.
• adj. Straightforward; sincere.
• adj. Immediate; express; plain; unambiguous.
• adj. In the line of descent; not collateral.
• adj. (astronomy) In the direction of the general planetary motion, or from west to east; in the order of the…
• adj. (political science) Pertaining to, or effected immediately by, action of the people through their votes…
• adj. (aviation, travel) having a single flight number.
• adv. Directly.
• v. To manage, control, steer.
• v. To aim (something) at (something else).
• v. To point out or show to (somebody) the right course or way; to guide, as by pointing out the way.
• v. To point out to with authority; to instruct as a superior; to order.
• v. (dated) To put a direction or address upon; to mark with the name and residence of the person to whom…

dissembling

• n. The action of the verb dissemble.
• v. present participle of dissemble.

dissimulation

• n. The act of concealing the truth; hypocrisy or deception.
• n. Hiding one's feelings or intentions.

feigning

• v. present participle of feign.
• n. Act of one who feigns; fakery; deceit.

fright

• n. A state of terror excited by the sudden appearance of danger; sudden and violent fear, usually of short…
• n. Anything strange, ugly or shocking, producing a feeling of alarm or aversion.
• v. (archaic, transitive) To frighten.
• adj. (rare) frightened; afraid; affright.

frighten

• v. To cause to feel fear; to scare; to cause to feel alarm or fright.

go

• v. To move.
• v. (intransitive, chiefly of a machine) To work or function (properly); to move or perform (as required).
• v. (intransitive) To start; to begin (an action or process).
• v. (intransitive) To take a turn, especially in a game.
• v. (intransitive) To attend.
• v. To proceed.
• v. To follow or travel along (a path).
• v. (intransitive) To extend (from one point in time or space to another).
• v. (intransitive) To lead (to a place); to give access to.
• v. (copula) To become. (The adjective that follows usually describes a negative state.).
• v. To assume the obligation or function of; to be, to serve as.
• v. (intransitive) To continuously or habitually be in a state.
• v. To come to (a certain condition or state).
• v. (intransitive) To change (from one value to another).
• v. To turn out, to result; to come to (a certain result).
• v. (intransitive) To tend (toward a result).
• v. To contribute to a (specified) end product or result.
• v. To pass, to be used up.
• v. (intransitive) To die.
• v. (intransitive) To be discarded.
• v. (intransitive, cricket) To be lost or out.
• v. To break down or apart.
• v. (intransitive) To be sold.
• v. (intransitive) To be given, especially to be assigned or allotted.
• v. (transitive, intransitive) To survive or get by; to last or persist for a stated length of time.
• v. (transitive, sports) To have a certain record.
• v. To be authoritative, accepted, or valid.
• v. To say (something), to make a sound.
• v. To be expressed or composed (a certain way).
• v. (intransitive) To resort (to).
• v. To apply or subject oneself to.
• v. To fit (in a place, or together with something).
• v. (intransitive) To date.
• v. To attack.
• v. To be in general; to be usually.
• v. (transitive) To take (a particular part or share); to participate in to the extent of.
• v. (transitive) To yield or weigh.
• v. (transitive, intransitive) To offer, bid or bet an amount; to pay.
• v. (transitive, colloquial) To enjoy. (Compare go for.).
• v. (intransitive, colloquial) To urinate or defecate.
• n. (uncommon) The act of going.
• n. A turn at something, or in something (e.g. a game).
• n. An attempt, a try.
• n. An approval or permission to do something, or that which has been approved.
• n. An act; the working or operation.
• n. (slang, dated) A circumstance or occurrence; an incident.
• n. (dated) The fashion or mode.
• n. (dated) Noisy merriment.
• n. (slang, archaic) A glass of spirits; a quantity of spirits.
• n. Power of going or doing; energy; vitality; perseverance.
• n. (cribbage) The situation where a player cannot play a card which will not carry the aggregate count above…
• n. A period of activity.
• n. (obsolete, British slang) A dandy; a fashionable person.
• n. (board games) A strategic board game, originally from China, in which two players (black and white) attempt…

move

• v. (intransitive) To change place or posture; to stir; to go, in any manner, from one place or position to…
• v. (intransitive) To act; to take action; to stir; to begin to act.
• v. (intransitive) To change residence, for example from one house, town, or state, to another; to go and…
• v. (intransitive, chess, and other games) To change the place of a piece in accordance with the rules of…
• v. (transitive, ergative) To cause to change place or posture in any manner; to set in motion; to carry,…
• v. (transitive, chess) To transfer (a piece or man) from one space or position to another, according to the…
• v. (transitive) To excite to action by the presentation of motives; to rouse by representation, persuasion,…
• v. (transitive) To arouse the feelings or passions of; especially, to excite to tenderness or compassion,…
• v. (transitive, intransitive) To propose; to recommend; specifically, to propose formally for consideration…
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To mention; to raise (a question); to suggest (a course of action); to lodge (a…
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To incite, urge (someone to do something); to solicit (someone for or of an issue);…
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To apply to, as for aid.
• v. (law, transitive, intransitive) To request an action from the court.
• n. The act of moving; a movement.
• n. An act for the attainment of an object; a step in the execution of a plan or purpose.
• n. A formalized or practiced action used in athletics, dance, physical exercise, self-defense, hand-to-hand…
• n. The event of changing one's residence.
• n. A change in strategy.
• n. A transfer, a change from one employer to another.
• n. (board games) The act of moving a token on a gameboard from one position to another according to the rules…

pretence

• n. (British spelling) An act of pretending or pretension; a false claim or pretext.
• n. (obsolete) Intention; design.

pretense

• n. (US) A false or hypocritical profession.
• n. Intention or purpose not real but professed.
• n. An unsupported claim made or implied.
• n. An insincere attempt to reach a specific condition or quality.

scare

• n. A minor fright.
• n. A cause of slight terror; something that inspires fear or dread.
• v. To frighten, terrify, startle, especially in a minor way.

sheer

• adj. (textiles) Very thin or transparent.
• adj. (obsolete) Pure in composition; unmixed; unadulterated.
• adj. (by extension) Downright; complete; pure.
• adj. Used to emphasize the amount or degree of something.
• adj. Very steep; almost vertical or perpendicular.
• adv. (archaic) Clean; quite; at once.
• n. (nautical) The curve of the main deck or gunwale from bow to stern.
• n. (nautical) An abrupt swerve from the course of a ship.
• v. (chiefly nautical) To swerve from a course.
• v. (obsolete) To shear.

steep

• adj. Of a near-vertical gradient; of a slope, surface, curve, etc. that proceeds upward at an angle near vertical.
• adj. (informal) expensive.
• adj. (obsolete) Difficult to access; not easy reached; lofty; elevated; high.
• adj. (of the rake of a ship's mast, or a car's windshield) resulting in a mast or windshield angle that strongly…
• v. (transitive, intransitive) To soak an item (or to be soaked) in liquid in order to gradually add or remove…
• v. (intransitive) To imbue with something.
• n. A liquid used in a steeping process.
• n. A rennet bag.