3
inventiveness(noun, plan, skill, store, supply)
3
jig(noun, move, action, catch, trick)
3
knavery
3
originality(imagination, inventiveness, ingenuity)
3
resource(noun, store, supply, reserve, imagination)
3
trump
3
wiles(noun, deception, dishonesty, cunning, deceit)
2
adeptness(noun, skill, grace, poise, elegance)
2
affectation(trick, sham, con, falsehood, exaggeration)
2
affectedness(exaggeration, pretension)
2
ambidexterity(deception, dishonesty, treachery, fraud, duplicity)
2
answer
2
antic(noun, catch, trick, sport, deception)
2
artificiality(exaggeration, pretension)
2
astuteness(skill, treachery, cunning, deceit, craftiness)
2
cabal(noun, plan, trick, scheme, plot)
2
cageyness(cunning, deceit, craftiness, slyness, wiles)
2
canniness(skill, cunning, deceit, shrewdness, craftiness)
2
cleverness(noun, craft, skill, store, supply)
2
complicity
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