| verb | make believe with the intent to deceive “He feigned that he was ill” |
| verb | behave unnaturally or affectedly “She's just acting” |
| verb | put forward a claim and assert right or possession of “pretend the title of King” |
| verb | put forward, of a guess, in spite of possible refutation “I am guessing that the price of real estate will rise again” |
| verb | represent fictitiously, as in a play, or pretend to be or act like “She makes like an actress” |
| verb | state insincerely “He professed innocence but later admitted his guilt” |
| adjective | adopted in order to deceive “an assumed name” |
| feigning | noun | pretending with intention to deceive |
| sham | noun | something that is a counterfeit; not what it seems to be |
| shammer | noun | someone shirking their duty by feigning illness or incapacity |
| pretender | noun | a person who makes deceitful pretenses |
| pretense | noun | pretending with intention to deceive |
| pretending | noun | the act of giving a false appearance |
| dissembler | noun | a person who professes beliefs and opinions that he or she does not hold in order to conceal his or her real feelings or motives |
| dissembling | noun | pretending with intention to deceive |
| act | noun | a manifestation of insincerity |
| Pretender | noun | a claimant to the throne or to the office of ruler (usually without just title) |
| pretension | noun | the advancing of a claim |
| guess | noun | an estimate based on little or no information |
| guesser | noun | a person who guesses |
| guessing | noun | an estimate based on little or no information |
| hazard | noun | an unknown and unpredictable phenomenon that causes an event to result one way rather than another |
| pretend | noun | the enactment of a pretense |
| make-believe | noun | the enactment of a pretense |
| falseness | noun | the quality of not being open or truthful; deceitful or hypocritical |
| fiction | noun | a deliberately false or improbable account |