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Impostor :: Impostor (n.) One who imposes upon others; a person who assumes a character or title not his own, for the purpose of deception; a pretender..

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

Psilosopher :: Psilosopher (n.) A superficial or narrow pretender to philosophy; a sham philosopher.

Un- :: Un- (adv.) Those which have the value of independent words, inasmuch as the simple words are either not used at all, or are rarely, or at least much less frequently, used; as, unavoidable, unconscionable, undeniable, unspeakable, unprecedented, unruly, and the like; or inasmuch as they are used in a different sense from the usual meaning of the primitive, or especially in one of the significations of the latter; as, unaccountable, unalloyed, unbelieving, unpretending, unreserved, and the like; o

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

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

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

Ignoramus :: Ignoramus (n.) A stupid, ignorant person; a vain pretender to knowledge; a dunce..

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..

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

Strokesman :: Stroker (n.) One who strokes; also, one who pretends to cure by stroking..

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

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

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

Dudder :: Dudder (n.) A peddler or hawker, especially of cheap and flashy goods pretended to be smuggled; a duffer..

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

Preterition :: Preterition (n.) A figure by which, in pretending to pass over anything, a summary mention of it is made; as, I will not say, he is valiant, he is learned, he is just. Called also paraleipsis..

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..

Simulate :: Simulate (a.) Feigned; pretended.

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

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