GRE vocabulary
hornswoggle
to cheat or dupe someone through bold trickery
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Hornswoggle (verb) means to cheat or dupe someone through bold trickery
Here is hornswoggle used in an example sentence: "The con artist tried to hornswoggle the tourists with a rigged shell game."
Common synonyms for hornswoggle include swindle, bamboozle, dupe.
Hornswoggle is a GRE-level vocabulary word worth knowing for the Verbal section.
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