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

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

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..

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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..

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

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

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

Pansophical :: Pansophical (a.) All-wise; claiming universal knowledge; as, pansophical pretenders..

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..

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

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

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

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..

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