The word should be Lying. When you don't want to have undesirable responses or suffer undesirable consequences, you lie, that is, you invent fictitious circumstances. Example would be someone asks you do to something and you invent that you have something else planned even if you don't have anything planned.
Answer:
The graph in the question does not represent a linear function because a linear function is always a straight line, and is represented by the following equation:
y = f(x) = a + bx
The function illustrated in the graph looks more like a logarithmic function that is flattening as it progresses.
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