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Malingerer :: Malingerer (n.) In the army, a soldier who feigns himself sick, or who induces or protracts an illness, in order to avoid doing his duty; hence, in general, one who shirks his duty by pretending illness or inability..

Simular :: Simular (n.) One who pretends to be what he is not; one who, or that which, simulates or counterfeits something; a pretender..

Corival :: Corival (v. t.) To rival; to pretend to equal.

Preterite :: Preterite (a. & n.) Same as Preterit.

Arachnidium :: Arachnidium (n.) The glandular organ in which the material for the web of spiders is secreted.

Abelonian :: Abelonian (n.) One of a sect in Africa (4th century), mentioned by St. Augustine, who states that they married, but lived in continence, after the manner, as they pretended, of Abel..

Mountebank :: Mountebank (n.) One who mounts a bench or stage in the market or other public place, boasts of his skill in curing diseases, and vends medicines which he pretends are infalliable remedies; a quack doctor..

Foresay :: Foresay (v. t.) To foretell.

Masquerade :: Masquerade (n.) Acting or living under false pretenses; concealment of something by a false or unreal show; pretentious show; disguise.

Know-all :: Know-all (n.) One who knows everything; hence, one who makes pretension to great knowledge; a wiseacre; -- usually ironical..

Retentivity :: Retentivity (n.) The power of retaining; retentive force; as, the retentivity of a magnet..

Prophet :: Prophet (n.) One who prophesies, or foretells events; a predicter; a foreteller..

Paraleipsis :: Paraleipsis (n.) A pretended or apparent omission; a figure by which a speaker artfully pretends to pass by what he really mentions; as, for example, if an orator should say, I do not speak of my adversary's scandalous venality and rapacity, his brutal conduct, his treachery and malice..

Discrete :: Discrete (v. t.) To separate.

Misprofess :: Misprofess (v. i.) To make a false profession; to make pretensions to skill which is not possessed.

Ariolation :: Ariolation (n.) A soothsaying; a foretelling.

Presage :: Presage (v. t.) To foretell; to predict; to foreshow; to indicate.

Serpula :: Serpula (n.) Any one of numerous species of tubicolous annelids of the genus Serpula and allied genera of the family Serpulidae. They secrete a calcareous tube, which is usually irregularly contorted, but is sometimes spirally coiled. The worm has a wreath of plumelike and often bright-colored gills around its head, and usually an operculum to close the aperture of its tube when it retracts..

Explainer :: Explainer (n.) One who explains; an expounder or expositor; a commentator; an interpreter.

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..

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