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trick

n. an attempt to get you to do something foolish or imprudent; "that offer was a dirty trick"

trick

n. a period of work or duty

trick, fast one

n. a cunning or deceitful action or device; "he played a trick on me"; "he pulled a fast one and got away with it"

trick, caper, prank, antic, joke

n. a ludicrous or grotesque act done for fun and amusement

trick, magic, legerdemain, illusion, deception, magic trick, conjuring trick

n. an illusory feat; considered magical by naive observers

up

v. raise; "up the ante"

trick, fox, fob, play a trick on

v. deceive somebody; "We tricked the teacher into thinking that class would be cancelled next week"

up, upward, upwards

adv. spatially, temporally, or metaphorically up :"Look up!" "Let's move the date up"; "The music surged up"

up

adj. used up; "time is up"

up

adj. (used of computers) operating properly; "how soon will the computers be up?"

up

adj. open; "the windows are up"

up

adj. being or moving higher in position or greater in some value; being above a former position or level; "the anchor is up"; "the sun is up"; "he lay face up"; "he is up by a pawn"; "the market is up"; "the corn is up"

up, improving

adj. getting higher or more vigorous; "its an up market"; "an improving economy"

up, astir, out of bed

adj. out of bed; "are they astir yet?"; "up by seven each morning"

up, upbound, upward

adj. extending or moving toward a higher place; "the up staircase"; "a general upward movement of fish"

shenanigan, trickery, chicanery, guile, wile

n. the use of tricks to deceive someone (usually to extract money from them)

hustle, bunco, bunko, con, gyp, sting, flimflam, confidence game, con game, bunco game, bunko game

n. a swindle in which you cheat at gambling or persuade a person to buy worthless property

deception, deceit, dissembling, dissimulation

n. the act of deceiving

fraud

n. intentional deception resulting in injury to another person

heist, rip-off

n. the act of stealing

maneuver, manoeuvre, tactical manoeuver, tactical maneuver

n. a move made to gain a tactical end

ruse, artifice

n. a deceptive maneuver (especially to avoid capture)

intrigue, machination

n. a crafty and involved plot to achieve your (usually sinister) ends

gambit, ploy, stratagem

n. a maneuver in a game or conversation

maneuver, manoeuvre, tactic

n. a plan for attaining a particular goal

feint

n. any distracting or deceptive maneuver (as a mock attack)

shenanigan, trickery, chicanery, guile, wile

n. the use of tricks to deceive someone (usually to extract money from them)

fraud, fraudulence, dupery, hoax, put-on

n. something intended to deceive; deliberate trickery intended to gain an advantage

fabrication, fiction, fable

n. a deliberately false or improbable account

copy

n. a secondary representation of an original; "she made a copy of the designer dress"

fake, sham, postiche

n. something that is a counterfeit; not what it seems to be

blind, subterfuge

n. something intended to misrepresent the true nature of an activity; "he wasn't sick--it was just a subterfuge"; "the holding company was just a blind"

deed, feat, effort, exploit

n. a notable achievement; "he performed a great deed"; "the book was her finest effort"

stunt

n. a difficult or unusual or dangerous feat; usually done to gain attention

pass, fling, whirl, crack, go, offer

n. a usually brief attempt; "he took a crack at it"; "I gave it a whirl"

mischief, mischief-making, mischievousness, deviltry, devilry, devilment, rascality, roguery, roguishness, shenanigan

n. reckless or malicious behavior that causes discomfort or annoyance in others

juggle, hoodwink, beguile

v. influence by slyness

coax, palaver, blarney, wheedle, cajole, sweet-talk, inveigle

v. influence or urge by gentle urging, caressing, or flattering; "He palavered her into going along"

lure, tempt, entice

v. provoke someone to do something through (often false or exaggerated) promises or persuasion; "He lured me into temptation"

flatter, blandish

v. praise somewhat dishonestly

score, seduce

v. induce to have sex; "Harry finally seduced Sally"; "Did you score last night?"; "Harry made Sally"

sham, assume, feign, pretend, dissemble, simulate

v. make a pretence of; "She assumed indifference, even though she was seething with anger"; "he feigned sleep"

circumvent, outwit, overreach, outsmart, outfox

v. beat through cleverness and wit; "I beat the traffic"; "She outfoxed her competitors"

failing

adj. below acceptable in performance; "received failing grades"

over, completed, terminated, concluded, ended, all over

adj. having come or been brought to a conclusion; "the harvesting was complete"; "the affair is over, ended, finished"; "the abruptly terminated interview"

done, through, through with

adj. having finished or arrived at completion; "certain to make history before he's done"; "it's a done deed"; "after the treatment, the patient is through except for follow-up"; "almost through with his studies"

through with, done with

adj. having no further concern with; "he was through with school and he was through with family"- John Dos Passos; "done with gambling"; "done with drinking"

running, working, operative, functional

adj. (of e.g. a machine) performing or capable of performing; "in running (or working) order"; "a functional set of brakes"

elevated

adj. raised above the ground; "an elevated platform"

upraised, lifted

adj. held up in the air; "stood with arms upraised"; "her upraised flag"

ascending

adj. moving or going or growing upward; "the ascending plane"; "the ascending staircase"; "the ascending stems of chickweed"

high

adj. (literal meaning) being at or having a relatively great or specific elevation or upward extension (sometimes used in combinations like `knee-high'); "a high mountain"; "high ceilings"; "high buildings"; "a high forehead"; "a high incline"; "a foot high"

bull

adj. characterized by rising prices: "a bull market"

emerging

adj. coming to maturity; "the rising generation"

insomniac, sleepless, wakeful

adj. experiencing or accompanied by sleeplessness; "insomniac old people"; "insomniac nights"; "lay sleepless all night"; "twenty watchful, weary, tedious nights"- Shakespeare

unsleeping, wide-awake

adj. fully awake; "the unsleeping city"; "so excited she was wide-awake all night"

waking

adj. marked by full consciousness or alertness; "worked every moment of my waking hours"

uphill, acclivitous, upward-sloping

adj. sloping upward

ascendant, ascendent, ascensive

adj. tending or directed upward; "rooted and ascendant strength like that of foliage"- John Ruskin

assurgent

adj. growing or extending upward; "an assurgent stem or leaf"

assurgent

adj. rising from the sea; "a seahorse assurgent"

climbing, scandent

adj. used especially of plants; having a tendency to climb; "plants of a creeping or scandent nature"

soaring

adj. "a soaring eagle"

down

adj. being or moving lower in position or less in some value; "lay face down"; "the moon is down"; "our team is down by a run"; "down by a pawn"; "the stock market is down today"

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