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Quack :: Quack (v. i.) To act the part of a quack, or pretender..

Pedant :: Pedant (n.) One who puts on an air of learning; one who makes a vain display of learning; a pretender to superior knowledge.

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..

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

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..

Theologaster :: Theologaster (n.) A pretender or quack in theology.

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

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

Pretendership :: Pretendership (n.) The character, right, or claim of a pretender..

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..

Ignoramus :: Ignoramus (n.) A stupid, ignorant person; a vain pretender to knowledge; a dunce..

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

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

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

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

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..

Pretender :: Pretender (n.) One who pretends, simulates, or feigns..

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

Philosophist :: Philosophist (n.) A pretender in philosophy.

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

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