Tale
Part of speech: noun
Definition: a type of story. A number told or counted off; a reckoning by count; an enumeration.
Example sentence: Never trust the artist. Trust the tale. The proper function of the critic is to save the tale from the artist who created it.
Fib
Part of speech: verb
Definition: To lie, especially more or less inconsequentially.
Part of speech: noun
Definition: A lie, especially one that is more or less inconsequential.Short form of fibula.