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1. A deception deliberately practiced in order to secure an unfair or an unlawful gain: The city officials were citing inadequate measures to fight money-laundering, vote-buying, fraud, etc.
2. Someone who assumes a false pose; an impostor: The phone call from a man who claimed to be a police officer turned out to be a fraud who wanted to gain access to the elderly couple's apartment in order to rob them of their jewelry and cash.
2. Someone who assumes a false pose; an impostor: The phone call from a man who claimed to be a police officer turned out to be a fraud who wanted to gain access to the elderly couple's apartment in order to rob them of their jewelry and cash.
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Alchemy, an ancient science
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English Words in Action, Group F
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“fraud”
(Italian, "chatter, prattle" > French: deceive, deceiver; swindle, swindler; fraud, quack, chiseler)