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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. . 2006