- Charade - Make-believe - Make-believe ten creep out - Alt. of Pretenceless - The act of laying claim; the claim laid; assumption;
pretension. - The act of holding out, or offering, to others something
false or feigned; presentation of what is deceptive or hypocritical;
deception by showing what is unreal and concealing what is real; false
show; simulation; as, pretense of illness; under pretense of
patriotism; on pretense of revenging Caesar's death. - That which is pretended; false, deceptive, or
hypocritical show, argument, or reason; pretext; feint.
- Feign - Make believe - Play act - Pose as - Pose as, pretend - To lay a claim to; to allege a title to; to claim. - To hold before, or put forward, as a cloak or disguise
for something else; to exhibit as a veil for something hidden.