deceit used in order to achieve one's goal.
A, Facile
GOOGLE: (especially of success in sport) easily achieved; effortless.
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Answer:D. i did not think that a continuation of the history of the enterprising vagabond Jim Smiley would be likely to afford me much information concerning the Rev. Leonoras W. Smiley, and so I started away
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