swindle vs rook

swindle and rook both are nouns.

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

As verbs, swindle and rook are synonyms defined as:

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

swindle (noun)	rook (noun)
the act of swindling by some fraudulent scheme	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

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