pretend

pretend verb act, affect, assume, be deceitful, be hypocritical, beguile, bemask, bluff, cheat, claim falsely, counterfeit, cozen, deceive, delude, disguise, dissemble, dissimulate, dupe, fake, falsify, feign, fingere, fool, give a false appearance, hide under a mask, hoodwink, imagine, imitate, impersonate, lie, make a pretext of, make a show, make believe, malinger, mask, masquerade, mimic, mislead, misrepresent, pass off, perform, play, play act, play false, portray, present falsely, prevaricate, profess, put on, put on a false front, seem, sham, simulate, twist the truth

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See also: claim, cloak, copy, deceive, demand, evade, fabricate, fake, false, falsify, feign, imitate, invent, lie, misrepresent, mock, palter, prevaricate, purport, simulate, specious, spurious