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Empiric :: Empiric (n.) One who confines himself to applying the results of mere experience or his own observation; especially, in medicine, one who deviates from the rules of science and regular practice; an ignorant and unlicensed pretender; a quack; a charlatan..

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..

Adventurer :: Adventurer (n.) A social pretender on the lookout for advancement.

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

Theurgist :: Theurgist (n.) One who pretends to, or is addicted to, theurgy..

Feigner :: Feigner (n.) One who feigns or pretends.

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

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

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

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

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..

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..

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..

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

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

Counterfeit :: Counterfeit (v. i.) To carry on a deception; to dissemble; to feign; to pretend.

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

Dissimulate :: Dissimulate (v. i.) To dissemble; to feign; to pretend.

Quack :: Quack (a.) Pertaining to or characterized by, boasting and pretension; used by quacks; pretending to cure diseases; as, a quack medicine; a quack doctor..

Pretend :: Pretend (v. t.) To hold before one; to extend.

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