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Quack :: Quack (n.) A boastful pretender to medical skill; an empiric; an ignorant practitioner.

Pretendingly :: Pretendingly (adv.) As by right or title; arrogantly; presumptuously.

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

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

Assumer :: Assumer (n.) One who assumes, arrogates, pretends, or supposes..

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

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..

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

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

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..

Feign :: Feign (v. t.) To represent by a false appearance of; to pretend; to counterfeit; as, to feign a sickness..

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

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

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

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

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..

Backare :: Backare (interj.) Stand back! give place! -- a cant word of the Elizabethan writers, probably in ridicule of some person who pretended to a knowledge of Latin which he did not possess..

Necromancy :: Necromancy (n.) The art of revealing future events by means of a pretended communication with the dead; the black art; hence, magic in general; conjuration; enchantment. See Black art..

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

Spurious :: Spurious (a.) Not proceeding from the true source, or from the source pretended; not genuine; false; adulterate..

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