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121error — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) Deviation from truth Nouns 1. error, fallacy; falsity (see falsehood), untruth; misconception, misapprehension, misunderstanding; inexactness, inaccuracy; anachronism; misconstruction, misinterpretation …
122garble — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) v. distort, misreport. See falseness, distortion. II (Roget s IV) v. Syn. jumble, misquote, falsify, distort; see confuse , mislead . III (Roget s 3 Superthesaurus) v. confuse, mix up, distort, jumble,… …
123invent — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) v. t. devise, conceive, contrive, originate; imagine, fabricate, improvise; create, spin, forge, design; feign. See imagination, falsehood. II (Roget s IV) v. 1. [To create] Syn. originate, devise,… …
124lie — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) v. i. prevaricate, falsify, deceive; recline, rest, be situated; extend. See falsehood, deception, location, horizontal. Ant., fact, truth. lie detector II (Roget s IV) n. 1. [An intentional… …
125load — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) n. burden; cargo, lading, shipment; charge. See gravity, transportation. II (Roget s IV) n. 1. [A physical burden] Syn. weight, encumbrance, carload, wagonload, hindrance, shipload, parcel, pressure,… …
126misrepresentation — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) n. misstate ment, distortion, exaggeration, perversion, falsification; caricature, burlesque, travesty; mimicry, mockery, parody, takeoff, imitation. See falsehood. II (Roget s IV) n. Syn. counterfeit,… …
127skew — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) adj. oblique, distorted. See obliquity. II (Roget s 3 Superthesaurus) v. twist, distort, pervert, shift, misrepresent, change, falsify, misconstrue, misstate, slant, bias, embellish. III (Roget s… …
128warp — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) v. twist, bend, serve, distort; bias, prejudice; pervert, deviate; incline. See distortion. n. bias; deflection, tendency; torsion, twist, malformation. See deviation. II (Roget s IV) n. 1. [Lengthwise… …
