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" The English language has 112 words for deception, according to one count, each with a different shade of meaning: collusion, fakery, malingering, self-deception, confabulation, prevarication, exaggeration, denial. "

Robin Marantz Henig

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Words

Language

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Generation

History

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Own

End

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Loneliness

Depression

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Good

Husband

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Regret

True

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