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someone or sth that is not what it is claimed to be empezar lección
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She was a psychic who was later revealed to be a fraud.
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a person who pretends to have skills or knowledge that they do not have, especially in medicine empezar lección
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The doctor charlatan steals your money under the guise of being your benefactor.
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to deceive someone in order to prevent them from discovering something empezar lección
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pull the wool over sb's eyes
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sth that seems true or impressive but that is wrong or not sincere: pol bzdura, nonsens empezar lección
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Freudian psychoanalysis is said to be pure hokum.
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to allow someone to make their own decisions about what to do: empezar lección
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leave sb to their own devices He seemed to be a responsible person, so I left him to his own devices.
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a set of equipment or tools or a machine that is used for a particular purpose: empezar lección
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The divers checked their breathing apparatus.
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to invent an excuse, explanation, or story in order to deceive someone: empezar lección
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He concocted a story about working late at the office.
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... ideas or information are wrong and based on facts that are not correct empezar lección
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an erroneous belief/impression The cases where made an erroneous diagnosis were ignored by him
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not very good at doing sth (hopless, terrible) empezar lección
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Jill nie potrafiła rozwiązać równania matematycznego. empezar lección
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Jill could not solve the mathematical equation.
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(especially of ideas) not clear and having no form: empezar lección
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She has a few nebulous ideas about what she might want to do in the future, but nothing definite.
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easily deceived or tricked, and too willing to believe everything that other people say: empezar lección
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There are any number of miracle cures on the market for people gullible enough to buy them. Psychoanalysts are exploiting the gullibility of those who still believe Freud can cure them.
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to cause something to be forgotten: empezar lección
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She has been unable to expunge the details of the accident from her memory. Freud's artfully created myths will not be quickly expunged
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the part of your mind that contains feelings and thoughts that you do not know about, and that influences the way you behave empezar lección
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One myth is a belief that Freud has invented the unconscious
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the appearance of someone or something, especially whenintended to deceive: empezar lección
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the appearance of someone or something, especially whenintended to deceive:
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something that you say by accident when you intended to say something else: empezar lección
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An innocent slip of the tongue is commonly believed to betray concealed secret desires.
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