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Assentation :: Assentation (n.) Insincere, flattering, or obsequious assent; hypocritical or pretended concurrence..

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

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

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..

Diviner :: Diviner (n.) One who professes divination; one who pretends to predict events, or to reveal occult things, by supernatural means..

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

Grammaticaster :: Grammaticaster (n.) A petty grammarian; a grammatical pedant or pretender.

Pretender :: Pretender (n.) One who lays claim, or asserts a title (to something); a claimant..

Pretension :: Pretension (n.) The act of pretending, or laying claim; the act of asserting right or title..

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

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..

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

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..

Divinator :: Divinator (n.) One who practices or pretends to divination; a diviner.

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..

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

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..

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..

Hocuspocus :: Hocuspocus (n.) A term used by jugglers in pretended incantations.

Pretend :: Pretend (v. t.) To hold out, or represent, falsely; to put forward, or offer, as true or real (something untrue or unreal); to show hypocritically, or for the purpose of deceiving; to simulate; to feign; as, to pretend friendship..

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