| No. | Term | Definition |
|---|---|---|
| 1. | act | a pretended behavior or show |
| 2. | affected | artificially adopted; not natural |
| 3. | alleged | claimed but not proven |
| 4. | apocryphal | of doubtful truth; made up |
| 5. | artificial | made by people, not natural |
| 6. | baseless | without a factual basis |
| 7. | bogus | not genuine; intended to mislead |
| 8. | camouflage | concealment by deceptive appearance |
| 9. | charade | a false show; pretense |
| 10. | con | a trick to cheat someone |
| 11. | contrived | artificial; deliberately created |
| 12. | cooked up | invented; fabricated |
| 13. | copycat | imitating; not original |
| 14. | counterfeit | made to look like the real |
| 15. | counterfeited | made as an illegal copy |
| 16. | deceptive | misleading; meant to trick |
| 17. | disguise | a false appearance to hide truth |
| 18. | dishonest | not honest; intended to deceive |
| 19. | distorted | twisted away from the truth |
| 20. | doctored | altered to mislead |
| 21. | duplicate | an exact copy |
| 22. | duplicitous | two-faced; deceitful |
| 23. | empty | lacking real substance |
| 24. | erroneous | wrong; incorrect |
| 25. | ersatz | a poor substitute; imitation |
| 26. | fabricated | invented or made up |
| 27. | faked | made to seem real |
| 28. | false | not true; not genuine |
| 29. | faux | artificial; imitation; not genuine |
| 30. | feigned | pretended; not genuine |
| 31. | fictitious | imaginary; not real |
| 32. | forged | illegally made or copied |
| 33. | fraud | a deceptive imitation or trick |
| 34. | fraudulent | intended to deceive; dishonest |
| 35. | front | a deceptive outward appearance |
| 36. | gaudy | showy in a cheap way |
| 37. | gimmicky | showy but lacking real value |
| 38. | groundless | without good reason or evidence |
| 39. | hoax | a trick meant to deceive |
| 40. | hollow | lacking real meaning or value |
| 41. | imaginary | existing only in the mind |
| 42. | imitation | made to resemble something real |
| 43. | inauthentic | not authentic; not real |
| 44. | incorrect | not correct; wrong |
| 45. | insincere | not genuine in feeling |
| 46. | invented | made up; not real |
| 47. | kitsch | cheap, showy, in bad taste |
| 48. | knockoff | a cheap imitation product |
| 49. | lie | a false statement |
| 50. | lip service | insincere support in words |
| 51. | lookalike | something resembling another |
| 52. | low-grade | of poor quality |
| 53. | lying | not truthful; deceptive |
| 54. | made-up | invented; not true |
| 55. | make-believe | pretended; imaginary |
| 56. | manufactured | made up; produced artificially |
| 57. | mask | a cover hiding the real |
| 58. | misleading | giving a wrong impression |
| 59. | misrepresented | presented falsely or inaccurately |
| 60. | mock | not real; imitation |
| 61. | mythical | not real; from myth |
| 62. | nominal | in name only; not real |
| 63. | phony | not real; made to deceive |
| 64. | playacting | pretending; putting on a show |
| 65. | pose | a false attitude or display |
| 66. | pretence | a false display; pretense |
| 67. | pretend | not real; put on |
| 68. | pretense | a false display of feeling |
| 69. | put-on | a joke or deception |
| 70. | questionable | doubtful; likely not genuine |
| 71. | red herring | a misleading distraction |
| 72. | replica | an exact copy of something |
| 73. | reproduction | a copy made again |
| 74. | rigged | dishonestly arranged or fixed |
| 75. | rip-off | an inferior imitation; copy |
| 76. | ruse | a deceptive trick or plan |
| 77. | scam | a dishonest scheme or trick |
| 78. | sham | a pretended thing; not genuine |
| 79. | smokescreen | something hiding the real issue |
| 80. | soundalike | something resembling in sound |
| 81. | specious | seems true but is false |
| 82. | spurious | not genuine; falsely claimed |
| 83. | staged | arranged to appear real |
| 84. | tampered | interfered with dishonestly |
| 85. | tawdry | cheap and showy; gaudy |
| 86. | third-rate | very low quality |
| 87. | toy | not real; for play |
| 88. | trumped-up | false; made up for effect |
| 89. | two-faced | insincere; deceitful |
| 90. | underhanded | done in a secret dishonest way |
| 91. | unfactual | not based on fact |
| 92. | unfounded | without evidence; baseless |
| 93. | unreal | not real; imaginary |
| 94. | unreliable | not trustworthy or dependable |
| 95. | untrue | not true; false |
| 96. | vaporware | promised product that never appears |
| 97. | whitewash | cover up the truth |
| 98. | whopper | a very big lie |
| 99. | wrong | not correct; mistaken |
| 100. | yarn | an exaggerated or invented story |
