What is another word for pretend?

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act out, malinger, play along, tease, play out, toady, what if, simulated, make out, manmade, play-act, pass off, set up, dare, artificial, appearance, imitation, synthetic, perform, stooged, starred, lay an egg, performs, bring down the house, make debut, do a turn, starring, Enacting, hammed, take part, be on, Personating, personate, portraying, play gig, Strutting, put it over, go on, personates, enact, say one's piece, play role, taking part, put over, Strutted, stooging, tread the boards, took part, Burlesquing, ham up, hamming, Personated, goes on, Burlesqued, play part, make up, bluff, play a trick on, chicaning, scammed, Trifled, sucked in, spoofed, chicaned, chicane, scamming, suck in, Foxed, put one over on, fox, led on, Juke, lead on, leads on, chicanes, fools, Foxing, put over on, spoofing, Jukes, Foxes, play trick on, Caricatured, be like, looks like, looking like, reduplicating, follow in footsteps, pattern after, send up, looked like, Imitating, Replicated, reduplicated, Caricaturing, do likewise, look like, sent up, sends up, play a part, reduplicates, modelled after, playing a part, Emulated, reduplicate, model after, make as iforas though, ad lib, fake it, writes, ADLIB, Fabulize, Storify, makes up, made up, play by ear, storified, IMPROV, pick to pieces, niggle, posits, importing, point to, pose as, pointing to, pointed to, altercate, Paralogize, Altercated, altercates, nit-pick, catch at straws, make a big thing about, have it, hypercriticize, talking back, talk back, nit-picking, flip-flopping, put up an argument, flipflop, nitpick, have at it, Altercating, had it, argue over, set to, put up argument, convey the impression, create the impression, show every sign of, sounds like, give the idea of, strike one as being, seeming, have the qualities of, make show of, have the earmarks of, have earmarks of, strike as being, look as if, have the aspects of, sound like, give the feeling of, be suggestive of, have the appearance of, look to be, sounded like, have the features of, supposes, daresay, dare-say, have sneaking suspicion, has a hunch, take as gospel truth, take stock in, have a hunch, detain, fantastic, assert, let, be played, arrive at, fantasy, move, pettifog, pass water, be underhand, fancy, attempt, broach, faulty, bring in, conceal, regard, maybe, approximate, deceptive, made-up, cook, make out like, feigned, excuse, encroach, unnatural, endeavour, factitious, earn, picture, dramatize, take a leak, alleged, think, visionary, spend a penny, testify to, act as, imagine, facade, involve, have, wear, contend, purported, posture, dramatise, extend, pull-in, set forth, enunciate, replica, dissembling, crap, touch on, define, vindicate, overact, Falsified, establish, believe, appropriate, affected, stimulate, nominate, clear, falsehood, gamble, imaginary, HIT, invented, posit, bear upon, play at, delineate, behave, misleading, avow, phantasmic, create, draw, lord, toilet, forged, profession, play games, play, fictitious, play over, masquerade as, plead, construct, seduce, lay down, advance, hold, ideal, affectation, usurp, crafty, cunning, realise, bullshit, gammon, report, infer, take the liberty, hoax, do a bit, seize, get to, faithless, attempt to, pretension, substitute, give, DO, possum, glorified, prepare, impress, acquire, Misled, propose, take over, gain, fix, deem, strain, hazard, roleplay, synthesized, faux, possibly, mimetic, pee, take upon oneself, infringe, banter, relieve oneself, suspicious, make bold, imitative, bluster, put forward, guise, induce, take-in, reach, note, in vogue, hypocrisy, professed, reckon, coquet, risk, get, deceit, perhaps, disguised, form, arrogate, amount to, ersatz, man-made, propound, make, reputed, play possum, estimate, quibble, develop into, cloak, judge, engage in, works, so-called, weird, meretricious, deceitful, venture, piddle, outline, defecate, produce, constitute, assume the role, erroneous, fanciful, paint, phony, manufactured, cause, perchance, Fantasied, take on, put, strike, state, tricky, allow, attain, unintelligibility, confess, describe, build, challenge, trespass, dummy, untrue, make water, throw, put forth, misrepresent, impact, dishonest, dressing, sketch, concede, bear on, twit, realize, asserted, undertake, make free, jeopardize, four flush, joke, make a show of, deception, play false, faked, micturate, fraudulent, insincere, progress to, shrewd, seasoning, aim to, adopt, presupposition, game, endeavor, invade, Bulled, unreal, gauge, pronounce, maintain, represent, characterize, virtual, pretext, false, take, wily, Histrionize, make a pretense of, illusory, piss, hold out, act a part, contrived, bogus, unexpected, urinate, jest, depict, ostensible, sly, name, dis-guised, more pretend, most incog, under-cover, dis guised, fakest, more incog, most pretend, in cog, in-cog, most fabricated, fictive, Imposturous, Impostrous, more imitation, most imitation, most pirate, more pirate, dummiest, un truer, un truest, un-truest, dummier, mis leading, most plaster, un-truer, mis-leading, more plaster, ungenuine, bummest, un-authentic, more unauthentic, un genuine, un-genuine, unauthentic, more faked, most ungenuine, un authentic, most unauthentic, un-real, most faked, more ungenuine, keep up, put on airs, sail under false colors, allege, let on, mislead, big, choo-choo, cold, reproduce, bang, birdie, bunny, cross, boo-boo, bow-wow, honest, try, pretend, affect, hypo criticalness, hypo criticalnesses, pre-text, hypo-criticalnesses, pre-tense, pre-texts, fakeries, hypo-criticalness, pre text, pre texts, pre tenses, pseudi, pre tense, hypocriticalnesses, brought down the house, says one's piece, says piece, playing role, bringing down the house, did a turn, doest turn, said piece, are on, say one piece, wast on, doing a turn, does a turn, pre-tend, doing turn, do turn, dost turn, says ones piece, say piece, brings down the house, doeth turn, laying egg, saying one's piece, plays part, plays gig, pre-tending, said one piece, putting it over, puts over, re-presenting, plays role, laying an egg, says one piece, re presents, pre tend, was on, pre tending, pre tends, lays an egg, doth a turn, re presenting, said ones piece, tread boards, bring down house, re-presented, is on, doth turn, saying ones piece, re presented, playing part, takes part, saying piece, does turn, lays egg, say ones piece, being on, lay egg, playing gig, brings down house, doest a turn, said one's piece, re hearse, trod the boards, re hearses, were on, re-presents, re present, played role, wert on, Re-present, played gig, re-hearses, making debut, bringing down house, makes debut, played part, brought down house, dost a turn, laid an egg, laid egg, am on, did turn, doeth a turn, didst a turn, re-hearse, saying one piece, didst turn, made debut, puts it over, putting over, pre-tends, be guiles, de lude, de-frauds, psyching out, faking out, be-trays, Illuded, mis leads, be tray, illudes, mis lead, de-fraud, be-guile, fakes out, be trays, be-guiles, Illuding, de-lude, de frauds, buncoing, mis-lead, buncoed, mis-leads, psychs out, be guile, buncos, de-ludes, de fraud, de ludes, be-tray, de fending, hast dibs something, ex-acted, re quire, ex acts, had dibs on something, laid claim to, de-clares, held out for, up-held, re quiring, ex act, ex-acts, hadst dibs on something, re-quires, up holds, be-lieve, laying claim to, de fend, up-holding, haddest dibs on something, up-holds, re-quiring, pop question, re quires, ex-acting, be lieve, de clares, haddest dibs something, have dibs something, having dibs on something, stakes out, holds out for, ex acted, holding out for, up-hold, de fends, ex acting, hits up, having dibs something, re-quire, de clare, de-fended, up holding, up held, has dibs on something, staked out, de-fending, lays claim to, hath dibs on something, de-clare, hath dibs something, ex-act, re-quired, had dibs something, hitting up, has dibs something, hast dibs on something, up hold, hadst dibs something, de fended, de-fend, re quired, de-fends, guesstimating, hazards a guess, took stab, hazard guess, takes a shot, hazarding guess, guesstimates, taking shot, hazards guess, take stab, takes stab, hazarded a guess, took a shot, taking stab, taking a shot, taking a stab, took shot, took a stab, takes a stab, hazarded guess, takes shot, hazarding a guess, take shot, carboned, phonied up, made money, doest like, phonies up, acted like, phonying up, phonied, makes like, statted, carboning, circulating bad money, going like, doing like, didst like, phonying, acting like, mimeos, acts like, mimeoed, did like, doeth like, made like, dost like, making like, statting, circulates bad money, dittoing, doth like, mimeoing, circulated bad money, goes like, does like, went like, dissemble, dis guise, put on front, co loring, putting front, dis guising, puts up front, doctors up, put up front, putting on false front, puts false front, puts on a front, puts on a false front, re-does, glosses over, putting a front, doctoring up, putting a false front, co-loring, be lied, puts front, re-did, puts on front, puts a false front, wearing cheaters, re-done, puts on false front, dis-guise, putting on a false front, puts a front, dis-guising, re does, put false front, re done, wears cheaters, putting false front, put front, doctored up, re did, putting up front, putting on a front, be-lying, wore cheaters, puts up a front, put a front, glossing over, dis guises, be lying, putting up a front, re-doing, dis-guises, re doing, put a false front, be-lied, putting on front, dis-simulating, dis-simulate, dis simulate, presenting false front, make-believed, presenting a false face, presented a false front, dis simulating, presents a false front, presenting a false front, presents a false face, presents false front, presented false face, present false face, makebelieved, presented false front, presenting false face, dis-simulated, dis simulates, make-believing, make believing, makebelieving, presents false face, presented a false face, dis-simulates, dis simulated, make believed, present false front, lead a merry chase, gives runaround, led a merry chase, de clines, giving the runaround, gave runaround, by pass, sneaking away, slipped out, leads on merry chase, beg question, kept distance, lead on merry chase, beating around bush, steers clear of, gotten around, led on merry chase, laying low, sneaks away, begs the question, steered clear of, keeps distance, gives the runaround, gets around, de-cline, beats around bush, begged the question, gat around, led merry chase, fended off, lays low, passing up, begs question, slipping out, snuck away, lead merry chase, leads merry chase, leading merry chase, leading on a merry chase, leading on merry chase, by passed, de-clines, gave the runaround, leads a merry chase, passes up, begging question, by passes, leads on a merry chase, giving runaround, slips out, slipt out, keeping distance, by passing, led on a merry chase, de cline, begged question, leading a merry chase, got around, sneaked away, give runaround, de vising, mis represent, de-vised, mis represented, de-vising, mis-represented, mis represents, mis representing, mis-represents, trumps up, de vise, de vised, trumping up, de-vise, mis-represent, mis-representing, cheat, lay claim, fish, fool, hoodwink, whitewash, be deceitful, impersonate, feign, delude, dupe, jazz, cozen, stonewall, assume, simulate, pass oneself off as, be hypocritical, fudge, sucker, claim falsely, deceive, beguile, put on, putting one over on, played a trick on, juking, out-foxing, out foxes, plays a trick on, puts one over on, out-fox, juked, playing a trick on, played trick on, out foxing, playing trick on, out foxed, out-foxed, sucking in, out fox, sucks in, out-foxes, plays trick on, de-duces, de-duce, going out on a limb, taking shot at, thinks likely, goes out limb, takes a stab at, jumping to a conclusion, go out a limb, going out limb, go out limb, sizes up, dare says, happening upon, took a shot at, de duces, jumping conclusion, dare said, took a stab at, jumped to a conclusion, jump a conclusion, happen up on, thought likely, happens upon, happened up on, went out on a limb, lumped it, going out on limb, goes out a limb, going out a limb, jumping a conclusion, lumps it, jumping to conclusion, take shot at, thinking likely, goes out on limb, takes shot at, jump conclusion, takes stab at, jumps to conclusion, dare saying, takes a shot at, took shot at, jumps to a conclusion, jumped to conclusion, happens up on, went out limb, jump to conclusion, lumping it, de duce, sized up, took stab at, went out on limb, happening up on, take stab at, pre-dict, went out a limb, jumps a conclusion, taking a stab at, jumped conclusion, jumps conclusion, goes out on a limb, pre dict, taking a shot at, taking stab at, jumped a conclusion, copy, ape, parody, repeat, flatter, mock, emulate, replicate, echo, ditto, mirror, reflect, mimic, duplicate, portray, parrot, resemble, parallel, creates out thin air, telling white lie, mis-stating, told untruth, tells a white lie, created out of thin air, tells white lie, telling untruth, told white lie, thinking up, creating out of thin air, in vented, mis-stated, in-vents, in vents, tells untruth, created out thin air, create out thin air, creates out of thin air, mis stating, in venting, in-venting, mis-states, mis stated, mis state, thinks up, in vent, in-vent, mis states, telling a white lie, creating out thin air, mis-state, in-vented, told a white lie, making sport of, made sport of, acted as though, acted as if, letting like, making as if, let like, letted like, acts as though, playing the part, acts as if, acting as if, lets on like, makes as if, lets like, acting as though, made as if, letting on like, plays the part, letted on like, re adies, pre pare, Fabulizing, improvving, fakes it, pre-pare, pre-paring, improvs, Fabulized, pre pares, pre pared, faking it, pre paring, faked it, storifying, re-adies, fabulizes, storifies, improvved, pre-pared, passed for, passes as, passes for, passing as, passing for, panto mime, panto mimed, panto miming, panto-miming, panto-mime, panto mimes, panto-mimes, panto-mimed, picked pieces, picking pieces, picking to pieces, picked to pieces, picks pieces, pick pieces, picks to pieces, pose, wast afraid, pre suppose, de-pending, pre-supposing, art afraid, re-lied, were afraid, pre-mise, was afraid, pre supposing, de pend, de pending, am afraid, de-pends, pre-suppose, re-lying, pre-supposes, pre mise, jump gun, de-pended, are afraid, de pends, de pended, pre-mises, pre supposed, pre-supposed, re lying, wert afraid, pre supposes, pre mises, being afraid, de-pend, re lied, defraud, show, stage, cover, falsify, forge, de pose, gets off chest, pro fess, says so, de posing, gat on soapbox, swore up and down, pro-claiming, sware bible, got chest, gat chest, sware up down, sware up and down, de-posing, got off chest, pro claiming, pro-claims, de-posed, blowing hot air, swears and down, pro fesses, gotten chest, soapboxed, talked big, crossed heart, sware on bible, swears on bible, getting on soapbox, pro claim, gotten soapbox, get chest, swearing bible, gat soapbox, talks big, getting soapbox, swears down, swearing on bible, get soapbox, constating, gets on soapbox, getting off chest, soapboxing, swore and down, constates, blows hot air, saying so, swore bible, swearing up and down, pro-fesses, pro claimed, swears bible, swears up down, swears up and down, swear bible, swore up down, pro claims, gotten on soapbox, got soapbox, swearing down, swearing up down, blew hot air, swear and down, de posed, swear down, getting chest, crosses heart, gets chest, pro-fess, crossing heart, swore down, gat off chest, sware down, swore on bible, said so, got on soapbox, de-pose, opens up, gotten off chest, talking big, constated, gets soapbox, sware and down, swear up down, swearing and down, posed as, de-noting, de notes, in tends, be tokening, in-tending, poses as, ex-press, points to, ex pressing, be-token, be-tokening, be token, de noting, in tend, in-tends, in tending, de-noted, de-note, de noted, be tokened, be-tokens, be-tokened, ex-pressing, ex press, in tended, in-tended, posing as, ex pressed, de-notes, be tokens, de note, in-tend, put an act, put act, catch straws, made a big thing about, puts up an argument, hyper-criticize, flip-flopped, hyper-criticized, putting an argument, haddest it, having it, makes big thing about, had at it, nit pick, hyper criticizes, hadst at it, hypercriticizing, caught straws, haddest at it, argued over, putting up an argument, has at it, hath it, talks back, hath at it, paralogizes, put an argument, hem haw, having at it, making a big thing about, putting up argument, flipflopped, nit picking, made big thing about, makes a big thing about, hyper-criticizing, Paralogizing, flip flop, make big thing about, hyper criticize, hast it, caught at straws, has it, making big thing about, nit picked, flip flopping, hyper criticizing, nit-picks, putting argument, setting to, puts an argument, flip flopped, puts up argument, flipflopping, argufies, put argument, catching straws, hadst it, hast at it, catches straws, hypercriticizes, catches at straws, puts argument, catching at straws, hyper criticized, talked back, argues over, nit-picked, nit picks, Paralogized, hyper-criticizes, argufied, sets to, hypercriticized, blow hot cold, creating impression, hath qualities of, conveyed impression, had the earmarks of, having earmarks of, haddest the earmarks of, has the qualities of, had the qualities of, giving the feeling of, look be, creating the impression, hadst earmarks of, having appearance of, is suggestive of, had qualities of, haddest the qualities of, looking as if, creates impression, having aspects of, gives idea of, haddest the aspects of, hath the earmarks of, art suggestive of, conveyed the impression, strikes one as being, have qualities of, hast the qualities of, has features of, gives the feeling of, created impression, give idea of, has aspects of, had earmarks of, hast features of, in sinuate, hadst appearance of, had the features of, in-sinuates, having the qualities of, hath the qualities of, hadst the features of, haddest features of, making a show of, conveys impression, striking one as being, hath earmarks of, conveying the impression, creates the impression, had aspects of, gives the idea of, giving idea of, haddest the appearance of, created the impression, in sinuated, made show of, were suggestive of, looked as if, looks to be, gave the feeling of, in sinuating, are suggestive of, has appearance of, haddest aspects of, hath features of, had features of, looking to be, showed every sign of, hast earmarks of, have appearance of, have aspects of, convey impression, hath the features of, hast the earmarks of, hath the aspects of, having the earmarks of, looked be, hadst the qualities of, in-sinuate, makes a show of, struck as being, shows every sign of, strook as being, in-sinuating, hadst qualities of, looks as if, conveys the impression, strook one as being, makes show of, striking as being, hast the features of, in sinuates, haddest the features of, gave feeling of, hadst the aspects of, gives feeling of, was suggestive of, having features of, have features of, hadst the appearance of, hast the appearance of, hadst the earmarks of, hast appearance of, looked to be, hast the aspects of, hadst aspects of, has qualities of, wast suggestive of, having the features of, hath appearance of, having the appearance of, wert suggestive of, create impression, struck one as being, has earmarks of, haddest earmarks of, giving feeling of, strikes as being, hath the appearance of, has the appearance of, had the aspects of, giving the idea of, haddest qualities of, give feeling of, making show of, conveying impression, haddest appearance of, had the appearance of, having qualities of, hast qualities of, gave idea of, hadst features of, looks be, re-gard

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