pretend
I
verb
act, affect, assume, be deceitful, be hypocritical, beguile, bemask, bluff, cheat, claim falsely, counterfeit, cozen, deceive, delude, disguise, dissemble, dissimulare, 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, purport, put on, put on a false front, seem, sham, simulare, simulate, twist the truth
II
index
claim (demand), cloak, copy, evade (deceive), fabricate (make up), fake, false (not genuine), feign, invent (falsify), lie (falsify), misrepresent, mock (imitate), palter, prevaricate, purport, simulate, specious, spurious
Burton's Legal Thesaurus.
William C. Burton.
2006