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you don't fool even some of the people

• a notorious liar: everybody knows your propensity for avoiding facts.

to the highest summits of artistry

• a consummate liar: your mastery of the art is so great that your lying is almost always crowned with success.

beyond redemption or salvation

• an incorrigible liar: you are impervious to correction. You go right on lying despite the punishment, embarrassment, or unhappiness that your distortions of truth may bring upon you.

too old to learn new tricks

• an inveterate liar: you are the victim of firmly fixed and deep rooted habits.

an early start

• a congenital liar: you have been lying from the moment of your birth.

no letup

• a chronic liar: you lie continually - not occasionally.

a strange disease

• a pathological liar: you are not concerned with the difference between truth and falsehood; you do not bother to distinguish fact from fantasy.

no regrets

• an unconscionable liar: no matter what misery your fabrications may cause your innocent victims, you never feel the slightest twinge of guilt.

smooth

• a glib liar: you are too smooth with your lies that we listen to you with a skeptical ear. (suspiciously fluent)

outstanding

• an egregious liar: your lies are so outstandingly hurtful that people gasp in amazement and disgust at hearing them.

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General meaning of the adjectives

• notorious: well-known of some bad quality

  • a notorious philanderer

• consummate: perfect, highly skilled

  • consummate artistry at keyboard

• incorrigible: beyond reform

  • an incorrigible optimist

• inveterate: long-accustomed, deeply habituated

  • an inveterate smoker (-ve sense)

• congenital: happening at or during birth

  • a congenital deformity

• chronic: going on for long time, or occurring again and again

  • chronic appendicitis

• pathological: diseased

  • a pathological condition

• unconscionable: without pangs of conscience

  • unconscionable cruelty to children

• glib: smooth, suspiciously fluent

  • a glib witness

• egregious: outstandingly bad or vicious

  • an egregious error

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Helping Words

• maim: wound or injure so that part of the body is permanently damaged

• compunction: a feeling of guilt or moral scruple that prevents or follows the doing of something bad

• unscrupulous: having or showing no moral principles

• acme: the point at which something is at its best or most highly developed

• absurd: wildly unreasonable, illogical, or inappropriate

• vicious: deliberately cruel or violent

• nimble: quick and light in movement or action; agile

• twinge: a sudden, sharp localized pain

• gospel: the teaching or revelation of christ

• gospel truth: a thing that is absolutely true

• zenith: the time at which something is most powerful or successful

• unsavory: disagreeable to taste, smell, or look at

• propensity: an inclination or natural tendency to behave in a particular way

• impel: drive, force, or urge (someone) to do something

• deception: illusion

• brash: self-assertive in a rude, noisy, or overbearing way

• cynic: a person who believes that people are motivated purely by self-interest rather than acting for honorable or unselfish reason

• remorse: deep regret or guilt for a wrong committed

• warped: bent or twisted out of shape

• advisedly: deliberately and after consideration