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Feign :: Feign (v. t.) To represent by a false appearance of; to pretend; to counterfeit; as, to feign a sickness..

Pretend :: Pretend (v. t.) To hold out, or represent, falsely; to put forward, or offer, as true or real (something untrue or unreal); to show hypocritically, or for the purpose of deceiving; to simulate; to feign; as, to pretend friendship..

Simulate :: Simulate (a.) Feigned; pretended.

Stoicity :: Stoicism (n.) A real or pretended indifference to pleasure or pain; insensibility; impassiveness.

Counterfeit :: Counterfeit (n.) One who pretends to be what he is not; one who personates another; an impostor; a cheat.

Feign :: Feign (v. t.) To give a mental existence to, as to something not real or actual; to imagine; to invent; hence, to pretend; to form and relate as if true..

False :: False (a.) To feign; to pretend to make.

Consequential :: Consequential (a.) Assuming or exhibiting an air of consequence; pretending to importance; pompous; self-important; as, a consequential man. See Consequence, n., 4..

Sham :: Sham (a.) False; counterfeit; pretended; feigned; unreal; as, a sham fight..

Pretended :: Pretended (imp. & p. p.) of Preten.

Empiric :: Empiric (n.) One who confines himself to applying the results of mere experience or his own observation; especially, in medicine, one who deviates from the rules of science and regular practice; an ignorant and unlicensed pretender; a quack; a charlatan..

Magic :: Magic (a.) A comprehensive name for all of the pretended arts which claim to produce effects by the assistance of supernatural beings, or departed spirits, or by a mastery of secret forces in nature attained by a study of occult science, including enchantment, conjuration, witchcraft, sorcery, necromancy, incantation, etc..

Homely :: Homely (n.) Plain; unpretending; rude in appearance; unpolished; as, a homely garment; a homely house; homely fare; homely manners..

Pythonic :: Pythonic (a.) Prophetic; oracular; pretending to foretell events.

Pretend :: Pretend (v. t.) To intend; to design; to plot; to attempt.

Obtend :: Obtend (v. t.) To offer as the reason of anything; to pretend.

Philosophaster :: Philosophaster (n.) A pretender to philosophy.

Assumed :: Assumed (a.) Pretended; hypocritical; make-believe; as, an assumed character..

Pretendant :: Pretendant (n.) A pretender; a claimant.

Impostor :: Impostor (n.) One who imposes upon others; a person who assumes a character or title not his own, for the purpose of deception; a pretender..

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