Sunday (NY) Times magazine had an article on lying, with the interesting assertion:

"English has 112 words for deception, according to one count, each with a different shade of meaning: collusion, fakery, malingering, self-deception, confabulation, prevarication, exaggeration, denial."

Eight down, 104 to go...

I wonder if the Eskomos will produce a book explaining what this says about our (inter)national character.

BobHale: Are you referring to this? http://www.princeton.edu/~browning/snow.html

Here's some background information on the Eskimo Snow Words Hoax: one, two, three, four, and five.

Congratulations zmjezhd!

"Hoax" is the first new contribution.

That makes it 9 down, only 103 to go!

103

Parakalo, RJA. How about grift and con? I'd suggest urban legend but that counts as two words, though idiomatically it is hard for me to see why it's not a compound.

Fib, josh, bullshit, and any word outa a politician's mouth.

My question is...how many are there for truth?

Cheating a bit, but:

aspersion, backbiting, calumniation, calumny, complete distortion of the facts, corker, deceit, deception, defamation, detraction, dishonesty, disinformation, distortion, evasion, fable, fabrication, falsehood, falseness, falsification, falsity, fib, fiction, fish story, forgery, fraudulence, guile, hyperbole, inaccuracy, invention, libel, mendacity, misrepresentation, misstatement, myth, obloquy, perjury, prevarication, revilement, reviling, slander, subterfuge, tale, tall story, terminological inexactitude, vilification, white lie, whopper, be untruthful, beguile, break promise, bull, con, concoct, deceive, delude, dissemble, dissimulate, distort, dupe, equivocate, exaggerate, fabricate, fake, falsify, fib, forswear, frame, fudge, invent, jazz, jive, make believe, malign, misguide, misinform, misinstruct, mislead, misrepresent, misspeak, misstate, overdraw, palter, perjure, pervert, phony up, plant, prevaricate, promote, put on, queer, snow, soft-soap, string along, victimize.

These come from the online thesaurus, and while many work, some of course don't. Also, some are nouns and some are verbs.