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Affected :: Affected (p. p. & a.) Given to false show; assuming or pretending to possess what is not natural or real.

Cultrivorous :: Cultrivorous (a.) Devouring knives; swallowing, or pretending to swallow, knives; -- applied to persons who have swallowed, or have seemed to swallow, knives with impunity..

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

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..

Pretence :: Pretence (n.) That which is pretended; false, deceptive, or hypocritical show, argument, or reason; pretext; feint..

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

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

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..

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

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

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

Quiz :: Quiz (v. t.) To puzzle; to banter; to chaff or mock with pretended seriousness of discourse; to make sport of, as by obscure questions..

Hypocrite :: Hypocrite (n.) One who plays a part; especially, one who, for the purpose of winning approbation of favor, puts on a fair outside seeming; one who feigns to be other and better than he is; a false pretender to virtue or piety; one who simulates virtue or piety..

Soi-disant :: Soi-disant (a.) Calling himself; self-styled; pretended; would-be.

Spoliation :: Spoliation (v. t.) The act of an incumbent in taking the fruits of his benefice without right, but under a pretended title..

Connive :: Connive (v. t.) To shut the eyes to; to overlook; to pretend not to see.

Would-be :: Would-be (a.) Desiring or professing to be; vainly pretending to be; as, a would-be poet..

Quack :: Quack (n.) Hence, one who boastfully pretends to skill or knowledge of any kind not possessed; a charlatan..

Pretend :: Pretend (v. i.) To put in, or make, a claim, truly or falsely; to allege a title; to lay claim to, or strive after, something; -- usually with to..

Pretended :: Pretended (a.) Making a false appearance; unreal; false; as, pretended friend..

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