Deceive someone inexperienced
I believe the answer is:
kid
'deceive' is the definition.
The answer and definition can be both to do with communicating as well as being verbs in their base form.
Perhaps you can see an association between them that I can't see?
I don't understand how the rest of the clue works.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for kid that I've seen before include "To fool; young animal" , "Deceive - child" , "Soft leather" , "Jest" , "Young animal or child" .)