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

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

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

Sciolist :: Sciolist (n.) One who knows many things superficially; a pretender to science; a smatterer.

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

Dudder :: Dudder (n.) A peddler or hawker, especially of cheap and flashy goods pretended to be smuggled; a duffer..

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

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

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

Illuminate :: Illuminate (n.) One who enlightened; esp., a pretender to extraordinary light and knowledge..

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

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.

Pretended :: Pretended (imp. & p. p.) of Preten.

Pyromantic :: Pyromantic (n.) One who pretends to divine by fire.

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

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

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

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

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

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