bunco vs rook

bunco and rook both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
bunco	Yes	No	Yes	No
rook	Yes	No	Yes	No

As verbs, bunco and rook are synonyms defined as:

Other synonyms of bunco include con, defraud, diddle, goldbrick, hornswoggle, mulct, nobble, scam, short-change, swindle, victimize.

bunco (noun)	rook (noun)
a swindle in which you cheat at gambling or persuade a person to buy worthless property	common gregarious Old World bird about the size and color of the American crow
	(chess) the piece that can move any number of unoccupied squares in a direction parallel to the sides of the chessboard

bunco (verb)	rook (verb)
deprive of by deceit	deprive of by deceit