What's the meaning of the word: hoax?
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Hoax means to joke, to jest, to prank with, to cheat or fraud. ( It is a humorous or malicious deception ).
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Mostly the word ‘hoax’ is used to deceive someone like a prank, trick, joke, lie, to cheat someone with a wrong information. It is also called as a false information that is made as a true one. Especially this word hoax is used to deceive someone with various tricks.
One may confuse between the words “Hoax” and “Rumour”. The main difference is rumour has a base while hoax doesn’t. Hoax make the people to think that it was true while it was absolutely fake while rumours has some kind of base where it originates.
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