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Fabrication

The act of fabricating, framing, or constructing; construction; manufacture; as, the fabrication of a bridge, a church, or a government.

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Broader term 11

Authorship 76% connected

The quality or state of being an author; function or dignity of an author.

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Building 76% connected

of Build

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Composition 76% connected

The act or art of composing, or forming a whole or integral, by placing together and uniting different things, parts, or ingredients.

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Construction 76% connected

The process or art of constructing; the act of building; erection; the act of devising and forming; fabrication; composition.

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Falsehood 76% connected

Want of truth or accuracy; an untrue assertion or representation; error; misrepresentation; falsity.

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Falsification 76% connected

The act of falsifying, or making false; a counterfeiting; the giving to a thing an appearance of something which it is not.

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Falsity 76% connected

The quality of being false; coutrariety or want of conformity to truth.

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Misrepresentation 76% connected

Untrue representation; false or incorrect statement or account; -- usually unfavorable to the thing represented; as, a misrepresentation of a person'…

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Penning 76% connected

of Pen

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Untruth 76% connected

The quality of being untrue; contrariety to truth; want of veracity; also, treachery; faithlessness; disloyalty.

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Writing 76% connected

of Write

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Canard 76% connected

An extravagant or absurd report or story; a fabricated sensational report or statement; esp. one set afloat in the newspapers to hoax the public.

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Fibbing 76% connected

of Fib

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Formation 76% connected

The act of giving form or shape to anything; a forming; a shaping.

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Paltering 76% connected

of Palter

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Shaping 76% connected

of Shape

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Derivationally related 10

Fabricate 74% connected

To form into a whole by uniting its parts; to frame; to construct; to build; as, to fabricate a bridge or ship.

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Fabricate 74% connected

To form into a whole by uniting its parts; to frame; to construct; to build; as, to fabricate a bridge or ship.

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Fabulist 74% connected

One who invents or writes fables.

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Fabulist 74% connected

One who invents or writes fables.

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Fabulous 74% connected

Feigned, as a story or fable; related in fable; devised; invented; not real; fictitious; as, a fabulous description; a fabulous hero.

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Fabulous 74% connected

Feigned, as a story or fable; related in fable; devised; invented; not real; fictitious; as, a fabulous description; a fabulous hero.

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Manufacture 74% connected

The operation of making wares or any products by hand, by machinery, or by other agency.

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Manufacture 74% connected

The operation of making wares or any products by hand, by machinery, or by other agency.

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Prevaricate 74% connected

To shift or turn from one side to the other, from the direct course, or from truth; to speak with equivocation; to shuffle; to quibble; as, he prevar…

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Prevaricate 74% connected

To shift or turn from one side to the other, from the direct course, or from truth; to speak with equivocation; to shuffle; to quibble; as, he prevar…

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Synonym 7

Assembly 92% connected

A company of persons collected together in one place, and usually for some common purpose, esp. for deliberation and legislation, for worship, or for…

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Fable 92% connected

A Feigned story or tale, intended to instruct or amuse; a fictitious narration intended to enforce some useful truth or precept; an apologue. See the…

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Fiction 92% connected

The act of feigning, inventing, or imagining; as, by a mere fiction of the mind.

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Lying 92% connected

of Lie

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Manufacture 92% connected

The operation of making wares or any products by hand, by machinery, or by other agency.

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Manufacturing 92% connected

of Manufacture

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Prevarication 92% connected

The act of prevaricating, shuffling, or quibbling, to evade the truth or the disclosure of truth; a deviation from the truth and fair dealing.

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