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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..

Coyness :: Coyness (n.) The quality of being coy; feigned o/ bashful unwillingness to become familiar; reserve.

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

Issue :: Issue (n.) In pleading, a single material point of law or fact depending in the suit, which, being affirmed on the one side and denied on the other, is presented for determination. See General issue, under General, and Feigned issue, under Feigned..

Dummy :: Dummy (a.) Fictitious or sham; feigned; as, a dummy watch..

Feint :: Feint (a.) That which is feigned; an assumed or false appearance; a pretense; a stratagem; a fetch.

Sham :: Sham (v. t.) To assume the manner and character of; to imitate; to ape; to feign.

Make-believe :: Make-believe (a.) Feigned; insincere.

Simulator :: Simulator (n.) One who simulates, or feigns..

Fiction :: Fiction (n.) That which is feigned, invented, or imagined; especially, a feigned or invented story, whether oral or written. Hence: A story told in order to deceive; a fabrication; -- opposed to fact, or reality..

Lugubrious :: Lugubrious (a.) Mournful; indicating sorrow, often ridiculously or feignedly; doleful; woful; pitiable; as, a whining tone and a lugubrious look..

Malinger :: Malinger (v. i.) To act the part of a malingerer; to feign illness or inability.

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..

Feigning :: Feigning (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Feig.

Soldiering :: Soldiering (n.) The act of feigning to work. See the Note under Soldier, v. i., 2..

Borrow :: Borrow (v. t.) To feign or counterfeit.

Incognito :: Incognito (a.) The assumption of disguise or of a feigned character; the state of being in disguise or not recognized.

Fiction :: Fiction (n.) The act of feigning, inventing, or imagining; as, by a mere fiction of the mind..

Personate :: Personate (v. t.) To assume the character of; to represent by a fictitious appearance; to act the part of; hence, to counterfeit; to feign; as, he tried to personate his brother; a personated devotion..

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

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