cover-up vs fib

cover-up

• An attempt to conceal or disguise something, especially a wrongdoing or a mistake. 

• An item of clothing to be worn over a swimsuit while not in the water. 

fib

• A lie, especially one that is more or less inconsequential. 

• A liar. 

• The fibula. 

• A kind of experimental poem where the number of syllables in each line is the next succeeding Fibonacci number. 

• To lie, especially more or less inconsequentially.