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to trick or not to trick ?
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On Halloween, the opposite of "trick" is "treat".
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To be honest, he said frankly, I'm an open book, but I can't think of a single word that does it on its own.
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What would be that opposite state of tricking someone? Being honest. Being truthful. I have heard the word undeceived, but I believe in adjectival form. I'm not sure it's a verb. And even if it is, I don't think it's the exact opposite of deceive, in the same way that being truthful is the opposite.
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There's always inform, but that might be missing the point slightly.
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Maybe there isn't a word for this. After all when we tell someone something, or when we state something, it is understood that we're not lying unless otherwise noted. Merriam-Webster offers "enlighten" as an antonym for deceive, but I am not sure that that is a precise antonym. To me "enlighten" implies leading someone from ignorance into knowledge (sounds pretty noble that way!), again with an implicit veracity.
Perhaps the Ferengi on Star Trek the Next Generation would have a special word for telling the truth.
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"I'm not going to trick you; I'm going to _____________ you." untrick, undeceive, enlighten
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