Fool
Fool verb - To cause to believe what is untrue.
Usage example: I fooled him into thinking that we were driving to the store, not to his surprise birthday party
Reveal
Reveal verb - To make known (as information previously kept secret).
Common collocations
Both words in one sentence
- The first few episodes of the series seem to fool us into thinking we know which characters to root for until their flashbacks and centric episodes reveal a whole other story before the first season is even over!
Source: Hidden Depths / Live-Action TV - Of course, a smart player playing this hero can also fool the enemy with even better mind games, pretending that they're the illusion and making the enemy think that the illusion is the real deal, only to reveal that they're actually chasing the illusion.
- This is invoked in one instance when Neil has to make a forgery that is good enough to fool most art experts but has just enough anachronisms that a detailed examination in an FBI lab would reveal that it is a fake.
Source: Anachronistic Clue
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