rook vs bunco

rook and bunco both are nouns.

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

As verbs, rook and bunco are synonyms defined as:

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

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

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