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S: (n) make-believe (make-believe%1:04:00::), pretend (pretend%1:04:00::) (the enactment of a pretense) "it was just pretend"

S: (v) feign (feign%2:32:00::), sham (sham%2:32:00::), pretend (pretend%2:32:00::), affect (affect%2:32:00::), dissemble (dissemble%2:32:00::) (make believe with the intent to deceive) "He feigned that he was ill"; "He shammed a headache"
S: (v) dissemble (dissemble%2:36:00::), pretend (pretend%2:36:00::), act (act%2:36:04::) (behave unnaturally or affectedly) "She's just acting"
S: (v) pretend (pretend%2:40:03::) (put forward a claim and assert right or possession of) "pretend the title of King"
S: (v) guess (guess%2:32:00::), venture (venture%2:32:00::), pretend (pretend%2:32:02::), hazard (hazard%2:32:00::) (put forward, of a guess, in spite of possible refutation) "I am guessing that the price of real estate will rise again"; "I cannot pretend to say that you are wrong"
S: (v) make (make%2:32:09::), pretend (pretend%2:32:01::), make believe (make_believe%2:32:01::) (represent fictitiously, as in a play, or pretend to be or act like) "She makes like an actress"
S: (v) profess (profess%2:32:04::), pretend (pretend%2:32:06::) (state insincerely) "He professed innocence but later admitted his guilt"; "She pretended not to have known the suicide bomber"; "She pretends to be an expert on wine"

S: (adj) make-believe (make-believe%3:00:00:unreal:00), pretend (pretend%3:00:00:unreal:00) (imagined as in a play) "the make-believe world of theater"; "play money"; "dangling their legs in the water to catch pretend fish"