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Counterfeit :: Counterfeit (n.) One who pretends to be what he is not; one who personates another; an impostor; a cheat.

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

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

Pretend :: Pretend (v. t.) To lay a claim to; to allege a title to; to claim.

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..

Pretend :: Pretend (v. t.) To hold before, or put forward, as a cloak or disguise for something else; to exhibit as a veil for something hidden..

Philosophaster :: Philosophaster (n.) A pretender to philosophy.

Quidnunc :: Quidnunc (n.) One who is curious to know everything that passes; one who knows, or pretends to know, all that is going on..

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..

Assumed :: Assumed (a.) Pretended; hypocritical; make-believe; as, an assumed character..

Intend :: Intend (v. t.) To pretend; to counterfeit; to simulate.

Illuminate :: Illuminate (n.) One who enlightened; esp., a pretender to extraordinary light and knowledge..

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

Cunningman :: Cunningman (n.) A fortune teller; one who pretends to reveal mysteries.

Pedant :: Pedant (n.) One who puts on an air of learning; one who makes a vain display of learning; a pretender to superior knowledge.

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

Divinity :: Divinity (a.) A pretended deity of pagans; a false god.

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

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..

Corival :: Corival (v. t.) To rival; to pretend to equal.

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