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FEIGNS |
Pretends |
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MIMES |
Pretends to sing |
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ACTOR |
He pretends to work |
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TURNSABLINDEYE |
Pretends not to see |
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ENDS |
Half-pretends to make them meet |
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FEIGNER |
One who feigns or pretends. |
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PRETENDER |
One who pretends, simulates, or feigns. |
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ASSUMER |
One who assumes, arrogates, pretends, or supposes. |
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PYROMANTIC |
One who pretends to divine by fire. |
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AFFECTER |
One who affects, assumes, pretends, or strives after. |
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DIVINATOR |
One who practices or pretends to divination; a diviner. |
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THEURGIST |
One who pretends to, or is addicted to, theurgy. |
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CUNNINGMAN |
A fortune teller; one who pretends to reveal mysteries. |
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WISELING |
One who pretends to be wise; a wiseacre; a witling. |
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STROKER |
One who strokes; also, one who pretends to cure by
stroking. |
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QUACK |
Hence, one who boastfully pretends to skill or knowledge of
any kind not possessed; a charlatan. |
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COUNTERFEIT |
One who pretends to be what he is not; one who
personates another; an impostor; a cheat. |
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DIVINER |
One who professes divination; one who pretends to predict
events, or to reveal occult things, by supernatural means. |
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SIMULAR |
One who pretends to be what he is not; one who, or that
which, simulates or counterfeits something; a pretender. |
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QUIDNUNC |
One who is curious to know everything that passes; one
who knows, or pretends to know, all that is going on. |
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BUSHWHACKER |
A guerrilla; a marauding assassin; one who pretends to
be a peaceful citizen, but secretly harasses a hostile force or its
sympathizers. |
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CONJURER |
One who practices magic arts; one who pretends to act by
the aid super natural power; also, one who performs feats of
legerdemain or sleight of hand. |
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MOUNTEBANK |
One who mounts a bench or stage in the market or other
public place, boasts of his skill in curing diseases, and vends
medicines which he pretends are infalliable remedies; a quack doctor. |
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PARALEIPSIS |
A pretended or apparent omission; a figure by which a
speaker artfully pretends to pass by what he really mentions; as, for
example, if an orat... |