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

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

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

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

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

False :: False (a.) To feign; to pretend to make.

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

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..

Strokesman :: Stroker (n.) One who strokes; also, one who pretends to cure by stroking..

Catharist :: Catharist (n.) One aiming at or pretending to a greater purity of like than others about him; -- applied to persons of various sects. See Albigenses.

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..

Dissimulate :: Dissimulate (a.) Feigning; simulating; pretending.

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..

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..

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

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

Wiseling :: Wiseling (n.) One who pretends to be wise; a wiseacre; a witling.

Witling :: Witling (n.) A person who has little wit or understanding; a pretender to wit or smartness.

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..

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..

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