Language Activator – cheat

اغلب دیکشنری ها لغاتی را مترادف یک لغت معرفی میکنند. اما آیا تمامی مترادفهای یک لغت صد در صد معنای همان لغت را القا میکنند؟ مسلماً خیر. در این بخش از آفرینش اکتیوتر لغات هم معنی و یا نزدیک به لغت cheat را بررسی خواهیم کرد.

:Fill in the blanks with appropriate words

cheat / con / fiddle / swindle / defraud / trick somebody out of / fleece

.N1. He was jailed in 1992 for attempting to …………… the insurance company he worked for

.N2. He doesn’t trust car mechanics — he thinks they’re all trying to …………… him

.N3. By the time she realized she had been ……………, she had lost more than $3000

.N4. My boss thinks I’ve been ………… my travel expenses

.N5. Trachtenberg is charged with attempting to …………… his business partner

N6. Police are warning residents to be on their guard after two men …………… a pensioner out of several hundred pounds

:Answers

N1. swindle N2. cheat N3. conned N4. fiddling N5. defraud N6. tricked

:cheat (transitive verb)

.He doesn’t trust car mechanics — he thinks they’re all trying to cheat him

:swindle (transitive verb)

to get money from a person or organization by cheating them, especially using clever and complicated methods

.He was jailed in 1992 for attempting to swindle the insurance company he worked for

:con (transitive verb)

especially spoken to persuade someone to buy something or to give you money by telling them lies

.By the time she realized she had been conned, she had lost more than $3000

:fiddle (transitive verb)

British informal to give false information or make dishonest changes to financial records, in order to get money or avoid paying money

.My boss thinks I’ve been fiddling my travel expenses

:defraud (transitive verb)

to get money from a company or organization, especially a very large one, by deceiving it

.Trachtenberg is charged with attempting to defraud his business partner

:fleece (transitive verb)

informal to get a lot of money from someone by tricking them

.She fleeced him for everything he had

.Authorities estimate at least 300 elderly couples were fleeced in the scheme

:trick somebody out of (verb phrase)

to get money or possessions from someone, by tricking or deceiving them

Police are warning residents to be on their guard after two men tricked a pensioner out of several hundred pounds