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

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

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..

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

Feign :: Feign (v. t.) To give a mental existence to, as to something not real or actual; to imagine; to invent; hence, to pretend; to form and relate as if true..

Pretendant :: Pretendant (n.) A pretender; a claimant.

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

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..

Coxcomb :: Coxcomb (n.) A vain, showy fellow; a conceited, silly man, fond of display; a superficial pretender to knowledge or accomplishments; a fop..

Cultrivorous :: Cultrivorous (a.) Devouring knives; swallowing, or pretending to swallow, knives; -- applied to persons who have swallowed, or have seemed to swallow, knives with impunity..

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

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

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

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

Mountebank :: Mountebank (n.) Any boastful or false pretender; a charlatan; a quack.

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

Pretend :: Pretend (v. i.) To hold out the appearance of being, possessing, or performing; to profess; to make believe; to feign; to sham; as, to pretend to be asleep..

Pretex :: Pretex (v. t.) To frame; to devise; to disguise or excuse; hence, to pretend; to declare falsely..

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

Pretending :: Pretending (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Preten.

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