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Backare :: Backare (interj.) Stand back! give place! -- a cant word of the Elizabethan writers, probably in ridicule of some person who pretended to a knowledge of Latin which he did not possess..

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..

Dissimulate :: Dissimulate (v. i.) To dissemble; to feign; to pretend.

Counterfeit :: Counterfeit (v. i.) To carry on a deception; to dissemble; to feign; to pretend.

Pretendingly :: Pretendingly (adv.) As by right or title; arrogantly; presumptuously.

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

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

Paraleipsis :: Paraleipsis (n.) A pretended or apparent omission; a figure by which a speaker artfully pretends to pass by what he really mentions; as, for example, if an orator should say, I do not speak of my adversary's scandalous venality and rapacity, his brutal conduct, his treachery and malice..

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

Sciolist :: Sciolist (n.) One who knows many things superficially; a pretender to science; a smatterer.

Countenance :: Countenance (v. t.) To make a show of; to pretend.

Quack :: Quack (v. i.) To act the part of a quack, or pretender..

Pretender :: Pretender (n.) One who pretends, simulates, or feigns..

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..

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

Wiseling :: Wiseling (n.) One who pretends to be wise; a wiseacre; a witling.

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

Diviner :: Diviner (n.) One who professes divination; one who pretends to predict events, or to reveal occult things, by supernatural means..

Icon :: Icon (n.) An image or representation; a portrait or pretended portrait.

Perfectionist :: Perfectionist (n.) One pretending to perfection; esp., one pretending to moral perfection; one who believes that persons may and do attain to moral perfection and sinlessness in this life..

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