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Conjurer :: Conjurer (n.) One who practices magic arts; one who pretends to act by the aid super natural power; also, one who performs feats of legerdemain or sleight of hand..

Un- :: Un- (adv.) Those which have the value of independent words, inasmuch as the simple words are either not used at all, or are rarely, or at least much less frequently, used; as, unavoidable, unconscionable, undeniable, unspeakable, unprecedented, unruly, and the like; or inasmuch as they are used in a different sense from the usual meaning of the primitive, or especially in one of the significations of the latter; as, unaccountable, unalloyed, unbelieving, unpretending, unreserved, and the like; o

Pretend :: Pretend (v. i.) To hold out the appearance of being, possessing, or performing; to profess; to make believe; to feign; to sham; as, to pretend to be asleep..

Assume :: Assume (v. t.) To pretend to possess; to take in appearance.

Affected :: Affected (p. p. & a.) Given to false show; assuming or pretending to possess what is not natural or real.

Pretend :: Pretend (v. t.) To lay a claim to; to allege a title to; to claim.

Theologaster :: Theologaster (n.) A pretender or quack in theology.

Philosophist :: Philosophist (n.) A pretender in philosophy.

Cunningman :: Cunningman (n.) A fortune teller; one who pretends to reveal mysteries.

Feigner :: Feigner (n.) One who feigns or pretends.

Pretex :: Pretex (v. t.) To frame; to devise; to disguise or excuse; hence, to pretend; to declare falsely..

Pedant :: Pedant (n.) One who puts on an air of learning; one who makes a vain display of learning; a pretender to superior knowledge.

Mountebank :: Mountebank (n.) One who mounts a bench or stage in the market or other public place, boasts of his skill in curing diseases, and vends medicines which he pretends are infalliable remedies; a quack doctor..

Soi-disant :: Soi-disant (a.) Calling himself; self-styled; pretended; would-be.

Pseudo- :: Pseudo- () A combining form or prefix signifying false, counterfeit, pretended, spurious; as, pseudo-apostle, a false apostle; pseudo-clergy, false or spurious clergy; pseudo-episcopacy, pseudo-form, pseudo-martyr, pseudo-philosopher. Also used adjectively..

Politicaster :: Politicaster (n.) A petty politician; a pretender in politics.

Affecter :: Affecter (n.) One who affects, assumes, pretends, or strives after..

Reformalize :: Reformalize (v. i.) To affect reformation; to pretend to correctness.

Necromancy :: Necromancy (n.) The art of revealing future events by means of a pretended communication with the dead; the black art; hence, magic in general; conjuration; enchantment. See Black art..

Spoliation :: Spoliation (v. t.) The act of an incumbent in taking the fruits of his benefice without right, but under a pretended title..

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