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Pretend :: Pretend (v. t.) To intend; to design; to plot; to attempt.

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

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

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

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

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

Sham :: Sham (a.) False; counterfeit; pretended; feigned; unreal; as, a sham fight..

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..

Assume :: Assume (v. t.) To pretend to possess; to take in appearance.

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

Pretendence :: Pretendence (n.) The act of pretending; pretense.

Humble :: Humble (superl.) Near the ground; not high or lofty; not pretentious or magnificent; unpretending; unassuming; as, a humble cottage..

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..

Bushwhacker :: Bushwhacker (n.) A guerrilla; a marauding assassin; one who pretends to be a peaceful citizen, but secretly harasses a hostile force or its sympathizers..

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..

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

Pythonic :: Pythonic (a.) Prophetic; oracular; pretending to foretell events.

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

Consequential :: Consequential (a.) Assuming or exhibiting an air of consequence; pretending to importance; pompous; self-important; as, a consequential man. See Consequence, n., 4..

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