Crime vocabulary

To obtain an advantage over someone by acting more cleverly and often by using a trick.

• Outsmart

• Mislead

• Deception

• Fake

To cause someone to believe something that is not true.

• Deny

• Mislead

• Disguise

• Confess

When people hide the truth, especially to get an advantage.

• Defraud

• Forge

• Fraud

• Deception

Not real, but made to look or seem real.

• Fake

• Outsmart

• Mislead

• Deception

To give a new appearance to a person or thing, especially in order to hide its true appearance.

• Deny

• Disguise

• Fake

• Confess

To admit that you have done something wrong.

• Confess

• Defraud

• Forge

• Fraud

To say that something is not true.

• Outsmart

• Mislead

• Deception

• Deny

To take something illegally or to prevent someone from having something that is theirs.

• Forge

• Mislead

• Defraud

• Fraud

To make an illegal copy of something in order to deceive others.

• Deception

• Fake

• Disguise

• Forge

The crime of obtaining money by deceiving people.

• Outsmart

• Disguise

• Confess

• Fraud