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Divination :: Divination (n.) The act of divining; a foreseeing or foretelling of future events; the pretended art discovering secret or future by preternatural means.

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..

Dogsleep :: Dogsleep (n.) Pretended sleep.

Pretension :: Pretension (n.) The act of pretending, or laying claim; the act of asserting right or title..

Sanctimony :: Sanctimony (n.) Holiness; devoutness; scrupulous austerity; sanctity; especially, outward or artificial saintliness; assumed or pretended holiness; hypocritical devoutness..

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

Cabala :: Cabala (n.) A kind of occult theosophy or traditional interpretation of the Scriptures among Jewish rabbis and certain mediaeval Christians, which treats of the nature of god and the mystery of human existence. It assumes that every letter, word, number, and accent of Scripture contains a hidden sense; and it teaches the methods of interpretation for ascertaining these occult meanings. The cabalists pretend even to foretell events by this means..

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

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

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

Mountebank :: Mountebank (n.) Any boastful or false pretender; a charlatan; a quack.

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..

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

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..

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

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

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

Grammaticaster :: Grammaticaster (n.) A petty grammarian; a grammatical pedant or pretender.

Skepticize :: Skepticize (v. i.) To doubt; to pretend to doubt of everything.

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

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