charlatan

charlatan [noun]: a trickster or fraud; a quack.

Example: Many knew that the business tycoon was a charlatan, but nobody dared to say it in the press.

Related words: charlatanistic [adjective], charlatanism [noun]

Synonyms: cheat, fake, fraud, impostor, mountebank, phony, pretender, quack, sham

Tags: GRE

Category: Vocabulary words

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