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

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

Simular :: Simular (n.) One who pretends to be what he is not; one who, or that which, simulates or counterfeits something; a pretender..

Divinator :: Divinator (n.) One who practices or pretends to divination; a diviner.

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..

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

Malingerer :: Malingerer (n.) In the army, a soldier who feigns himself sick, or who induces or protracts an illness, in order to avoid doing his duty; hence, in general, one who shirks his duty by pretending illness or inability..

Abelonian :: Abelonian (n.) One of a sect in Africa (4th century), mentioned by St. Augustine, who states that they married, but lived in continence, after the manner, as they pretended, of Abel..

Pretender :: Pretender (n.) The pretender (Eng. Hist.), the son or the grandson of James II., the heir of the royal family of Stuart, who laid claim to the throne of Great Britain, from which the house was excluded by law..

Pretensed :: Pretensed (a.) Pretended; feigned.

Spurious :: Spurious (a.) Not proceeding from the true source, or from the source pretended; not genuine; false; adulterate..

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

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

Pansophical :: Pansophical (a.) All-wise; claiming universal knowledge; as, pansophical pretenders..

Bushwhacker :: Bushwhacker (n.) A guerrilla; a marauding assassin; one who pretends to be a peaceful citizen, but secretly harasses a hostile force or its sympathizers..

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

Dissimulate :: Dissimulate (a.) Feigning; simulating; pretending.

Feigned :: Feigned (a.) Not real or genuine; pretended; counterfeit; insincere; false.

Pyromantic :: Pyromantic (n.) One who pretends to divine by fire.

Adventurer :: Adventurer (n.) A social pretender on the lookout for advancement.

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