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Main Entry:	pretend
Part of Speech:	verb
Definition:	fake, falsify
Synonyms:	act, affect, allege, assume, beguile, bluff, cheat, claim, counterfeit, cozen, deceive, delude, dissemble, dissimulate, dupe, feign, fish, fool, fudge, hoodwink, impersonate, jazz, let on, make out, malinger, masquerade, mislead, pass off, profess, purport, put on, sham, simulate, stonewall, sucker, whitewash, be deceitful, be hypocritical, claim falsely, fake out, jive, lay claim, pass oneself off as, put up a front, shuck and jive
Notes:	portend means to indicate (events, misfortunes, etc.) as in future or to foreshadow or to bode; pretend means to make believe with the intent to deceive or to give a false appearance of
Antonyms:	tell truth

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Main Entry:	pretend
Part of Speech:	verb
Definition:	play the part of
Synonyms:	act, imagine, imitate, impersonate, make believe, make up, masquerade, mimic, play, portray, pose, purport, put on an act*, represent, reproduce, suppose, assume the role, make as if, make out like, playact, put on a front, put on airs
Antonyms:	be honest

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Main Entry:	bluff
Part of Speech:	verb
Definition:	deceive
Synonyms:	affect, beguile, betray, con, counterfeit, defraud, delude, double-cross, fake, feign, fool, humbug, juggle, lie, mislead, pretend, put on, sham, shuck, simulate, snow, take in, trick, bunco, fake out, illude, jive, psych out
Antonyms:	come clean, reveal, tell truth

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Main Entry:	claim
Part of Speech:	verb
Definition:	demand, maintain property or right
Synonyms:	adduce, advance, allege, ask, assert, believe, call for, challenge, collect, declare, defend, exact, hit, hold, insist, justify, knock, need, pick up, pop the question*, postulate, pretend, profess, pronounce, require, requisition, solicit, take, uphold, vindicate, have dibs on something, hit up, hold out for, lay claim to, stake out
Antonyms:	deny, disclaim, question

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Main Entry:	conjecture
Part of Speech:	verb
Definition:	speculate
Synonyms:	assume, believe, conceive, conclude, deem, estimate, expect, fancy, feel*, figure, gather, glean, guess, imagine, infer, judge, presume, pretend, suppose, surmise, suspect, theorize, think, guesstimate, hazard a guess, hypothesize, take a shot, take a stab, take for granted
Antonyms:	prove

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Main Entry:	counterfeit
Part of Speech:	verb
Definition:	make deceitful imitation
Synonyms:	Xerox, affect, ape, assume, bluff, carbon, cheat, clone, coin, copy, defraud, delude, ditto, do, dupe, fabricate, fake, feign, forge, imitate, impersonate, knock off, mimic, mint, phony, pretend, put on, sham, simulate, act like, circulate bad money, do like, go like, make like, make money, mimeo, phony up, stat
Antonyms:	be honest

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Main Entry:	disguise
Part of Speech:	verb
Definition:	mask; misrepresent
Synonyms:	affect, age, alter, antique, assume, beard, belie, camouflage, change, cloak, color, conceal, counterfeit, cover, deceive, dissemble, dissimulate, dress up, fake, falsify, feign, front, fudge, garble, hide, make up, masquerade, muffle, obfuscate, obscure, pretend, put on an act, redo, screen, secrete, sham, shroud, simulate, touch up, varnish, veil, whitewash*, cover up, doctor up, gloss over, make like, put on a false front, put on a front, put up a front, wear cheaters
Antonyms:	expose, open, represent, reveal, uncover, unmask

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Main Entry:	disguised
Part of Speech:	adjective
Definition:	unrecognizable
Synonyms:	camouflaged, changed, cloaked, covered, covert, fake, false, feigned, hidden, masked, pretend, undercover, incog
Antonyms:	bare, open, uncovered, recognizable, revealed, unmasked

Main Entry:	dissimulate
Part of Speech:	verb
Definition:	conceal, disguise
Synonyms:	beard*, camouflage, cloak, deceive, dissemble, dress up, fake, feign, hide, make-believe, mask, pretend, present a false face, present a false front
Antonyms:	be honest

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Main Entry:	evade
Part of Speech:	verb
Definition:	get away from
Synonyms:	avoid, baffle, balk, bypass, cavil, circumvent, conceal, confuse, cop out, deceive, decline, dodge, double, duck, elude, equivocate, escape, eschew, fence, fend off, flee, fly, fudge, hedge, hide, lie, parry, pretend, prevaricate, pussyfoot, put off, shift, shirk, shuck, shuffle, shun, shy, sidestep, tergiversate, trick, waffle, weasel, beat around bush, beg the question, get around, give the runaround, keep distance, lay low*, lead on a merry chase, pass up, slip out, sneak away, steer clear of
Antonyms:	face, meet, take on

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Main Entry:	fool
Part of Speech:	verb
Definition:	trick, mislead
Synonyms:	bamboozle, bluff, cheat, con, deceive, delude, diddle, dupe, flimflam, gull, hoax, hoodwink, kid, make believe, outfox, pretend, put on, scam, snow, spoof, take in, trifle, chicane, fake out, fox, jive*, juke, lead on, play a trick on, play-act, put one over on, suck in

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Main Entry:	guess
Part of Speech:	verb
Definition:	try to figure out; imagine
Synonyms:	believe, calculate, chance, conjecture, deduce, deem, divine, estimate, fancy, fathom, hazard, infer, judge, opine, penetrate, pick, postulate, predicate, predict, presume, pretend, reason, reckon, select, solve, speculate, suggest, suppose, surmise, survey, suspect, theorize, think, venture, work out, dare say, go out on a limb, guesstimate, happen upon, hypothesize, jump to a conclusion, lump it, size up, take a shot at, take a stab at, think likely
Antonyms:	calculate, measure

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Main Entry:	imitate
Part of Speech:	verb
Definition:	pretend to be; do an impression of
Synonyms:	Xerox, affect, ape, assume, borrow, burlesque, carbon, caricature, clone, copy, counterfeit, ditto, duplicate, echo, emulate, falsify, feign, follow, follow suit, forge, impersonate, match, mime, mimic, mirror, mock, parallel, parody, pretend, put on, reflect, repeat, reproduce, resemble, sham, simulate, spoof, take off, travesty, act like, be like, do like, do likewise, follow in footsteps, look like, model after, pattern after, personate, play a part, reduplicate, replicate, send up*
Antonyms:	clash, differ, oppose, reverse, be original

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Main Entry:	kid
Part of Speech:	verb
Definition:	fool, ridicule
Synonyms:	bamboozle, banter, beguile, bother, cozen, delude, dupe, flimflam, fun, gull, hoax, hoodwink, jape, jest, joke, jolly, josh, make fun of, mock, pretend, rag, razz, rib, roast, spoof, tease, trick, make sport of
Antonyms:	be serious

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Main Entry:	make-believe
Part of Speech:	adjective
Definition:	imagined, unreal
Synonyms:	dream, false, fantasy, fraudulent, imaginary, made-up, mock, pretend, pretended, sham, simulated, acted, fantasized, fictional
Antonyms:	real, true, unimagined

Main Entry:	make believe
Part of Speech:	verb
Definition:	make a show of
Synonyms:	bluff, counterfeit, dream, enact, fake, fantasize, feign, fool, imagine, play, pretend, pretend, simulate, act as if, act as though, let on like, make as if, play the part, play-act, playact
Antonyms:	live reality

Main Entry:	masquerade
Part of Speech:	verb
Definition:	disguise
Synonyms:	dissemble, dissimulate, frolic, impersonate, mask, pass off, pose, posture, pretend, revel, attitudinize, pass as, pass for
Antonyms:	reveal, unmask

Main Entry:	pretended
Part of Speech:	adjective
Definition:	alleged; imaginary
Synonyms:	affected, artificial, assumed, avowed, bogus, charlatan, cheating, concealed, counterfeit, covered, factitious, fake, false, falsified, feigned, fictitious, lying, make-believe, masked, mock, ostensible, phony, pretend, professed, pseudo, quack, sham*, simulated, so-called, spurious, supposed, bluffing, dissimulated, impostrous, imposturous, purported, put-on, shammed
Antonyms:	genuine, real, sincere

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Main Entry:	profess
Part of Speech:	verb
Definition:	declare, assert
Synonyms:	acknowledge, admit, affirm, allege, announce, asseverate, aver, avow, certify, claim, come out, confess, confirm, croon, depose, dissemble, fake, feign, maintain, make out, own, predicate, pretend, proclaim, purport, sing, spiel, spout, state, stump*, vouch, act as if, avouch, blow hot air, constate, cross heart, get off chest, get on soapbox, open up, own up, say so, soapbox, swear on bible, swear up and down, talk big
Antonyms:	conceal, hide

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Main Entry:	pseudo
Part of Speech:	adjective
Definition:	artificial, fake
Synonyms:	bogus, counterfeit, ersatz, false, imitation, mock, phony, pirate, pretend, pretended, quasi, sham, simulated, spurious, wrong, not genuine, not kosher, not legit, not real
Antonyms:	genuine, real, true

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