Here’s one of very few Greek words that are easily understood without consulting a concordance: pseudoprophētēs, meaning “false prophets”. To call something “pseudo”
or “pseud” these days is to see right through it and recognize it as phony. The
prophētēs part kind of translates itself.
But we live in a day when, as C.S. Lewis put it, “The dwarves are for the dwarves.” We pride ourselves
on being sufficiently cynical to see through everything, to the point where
many of us see nothing at all.