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v. To give a false appearance of; feign: "You had to pretend conformity while privately pursuing high and dangerous nonconformism” ( Anthony Burgess).

v. To claim or allege insincerely or falsely; profess: doesn't pretend to be an expert.

v. To represent fictitiously in play; make believe: pretended they were on a cruise.

v. To take upon oneself; venture: I cannot pretend to say that you are wrong.

verb-intransitive. To feign an action or character, as in play.

verb-intransitive. To put forward a claim.

verb-intransitive. To make pretensions: pretends to gourmet tastes.

adj. Informal Imitation; make-believe: pretend money; pretend pearls.

v. To make oneself appear to do or be doing something; to engage in make-believe.

v. To lay a claim to; to allege a title to; to claim.

v. To hold before, or put forward, as a cloak or disguise for something else; to exhibit as a veil for something hidden.

v. To hold out, or represent, falsely; to put forward, or offer, as true or real (something untrue or unreal); to show hypocritically, or for the purpose of deceiving; to simulate; to feign.

v. To intend; to design; to plot; to attempt.

v. To hold before one; to extend.

verb-intransitive. To put in, or make, a claim, truly or falsely; to allege a title; to lay claim to, or strive after, something; -- usually with to.

verb-intransitive. To hold out the appearance of being, possessing, or performing; to profess; to make believe; to feign; to sham.

To hold out before one or in front; stretch forward; hence, to put before one for action, consideration, or acceptance; offer; present.

To put forward as a statement or an assertion; especially, to allege or declare falsely or with intent to deceive.

To put forward as a reason or excuse; use as a pretext; allege as a ground or reason; hence, to put forward a false appearance of; simulate; counterfeit; feign.

To lay claim to; assert as a right or possession; claim.

To aspire to; attempt; undertake.

To intend; design; plan; plot.

To presage; portend; forebode.

To stretch or reach forward; aim; aspire: often with to.

To lay claim; assert a right of ownership or possession: generally followed by to.

To make pretense; make believe; counterfeit or feign.

v. put forward, of a guess, in spite of possible refutation

v. put forward a claim and assert right or possession of

n. the enactment of a pretense

adj. imagined as in a play

v. make believe with the intent to deceive

v. represent fictitiously, as in a play, or pretend to be or act like

v. behave unnaturally or affectedly

v. state insincerely

"They are about "Theocracy" or getting whatever fossil they have designated the power to dictate to everybody whatever spew he wishes to pretend is the word of "god"."

unreal   

pretended    pretending    pretends   

claim    arrogate    lay claim    feigning    pretending    pretence    pretense    simulation   

imagine   

pretender    pretension    pretentiousness    pretentious    pretense   

simulate    feign    sham    assume   

simulate    feign    intend    design    plot    attempt    extend    profess    sham    feint   

End    Friend    Mende    Wend    abend    amend    append    apprehend    ascend    attend   

semiprofessional    then-the    etherial    neededcredit    fisher-boy    dark-robed    masturbatory    skin-crawling    erogenous    half-defined