pretend
play like
go through the motions
come it
play along
trick
caper
prank
put-on
antic
joke
charade
make believe
make
pretendingly
goof on
come
clown
unveracious
play
pass oneself off as
affectatious
have on
jest
kid on
extract the urine
pappyshow
assumed
feint
chaffing
peculiarly
play at
sport
thesp
cozen
devilishly
devilish
feistily
play the fool
prankishness
intend
banter
LARP
personate
take the pee
arse around
guy
pretendership
party piece
manipulatively
mimic
horse
put-up
joking
personal manner
actorishly
manner
impersonally
set up
mum
espressivo
pretendedly
wildin'
dissembling
pretence
represent
sham
pretense
feigning
diviso
impersonalize
dousing
mock
ackamarackus
drama queen
front
self-mockingly
pseudo
stunting
jackpudding
actinally
act out
improvidently
spoof
act a fool
phony
anticize
artifice
enact
improvisationally
playfully
lash-up
unveracious
affectatious
assumed
mimic
diviso
mock
pretendingly
peculiarly
devilishly
devilish
feistily
manipulatively
actorishly
impersonally
espressivo
pretendedly
diviso
self-mockingly
actinally
improvidently
improvisationally
playfully
pretend
trick
caper
prank
put-on
antic
joke
chaffing
prankishness
pretendership
party piece
put-up
joking
personal manner
manner
dissembling
pretence
sham
pretense
feigning
dousing
ackamarackus
front
pseudo
stunting
jackpudding
spoof
artifice
lash-up
play like
go through the motions
come it
play along
caper
charade
pretend
make believe
make
goof on
come
clown
play
pass oneself off as
joke
have on
jest
kid on
extract the urine
pappyshow
feint
play at
sport
thesp
cozen
play the fool
intend
banter
LARP
personate
take the pee
arse around
guy
horse
set up
mum
wildin'
represent
impersonalize
drama queen
act out
act a fool
phony
anticize
enact
antic
noun
verb
- To claim, to allege, especially when falsely or as a form of deliberate deception.
- To feign, affect (a state, quality, etc.).
- To lay claim to (an ability, status, advantage, etc.). (originally used without to)
- To make oneself appear to do or be doing something; to engage in make-believe.
adj
verb
noun
- a ludicrous or grotesque act done for fun and amusement
- a cunning or deceitful action or device
- a period of work or duty
- an attempt to get you to do something foolish or imprudent
- an illusory feat; considered magical by naive observers
- a prostitute's customer
- (card games) in a single round, the sequence of cards played by all the players; the high card is the winner
verb
noun
- a ludicrous or grotesque act done for fun and amusement
- any of numerous plants of the genus Capparis
- pickled flower buds used as a pungent relish in various dishes and sauces
- a crime (especially a robbery)
- a playful leap or hop
- gay or light-hearted recreational activity for diversion or amusement
verb
verb
- represent fictitiously, as in a play, or pretend to be or act like
- engage in
- give certain properties to something
- make or cause to be or to become
- cause to do; cause to act in a specified manner
- give rise to; cause to happen or occur, not always intentionally
- create or manufacture a man-made product
- make, formulate, or derive in the mind
- compel or make somebody or something to act in a certain way
- create by artistic means
- earn on some commercial or business transaction; earn as salary or wages
- create or design, often in a certain way
- to compose or represent
- reach a goal
- be or be capable of being changed or made into
- make by shaping or bringing together constituents
- perform, produce, or carry out
- make by combining materials and parts
- change from one form into another
- act in a certain way so as to acquire
- charge with a function; charge to be
- achieve a point or goal
- reach a destination, either real or abstract
- institute, enact, or establish
- carry out or commit
- form by assembling individuals or constituents
- organize or be responsible for
- put in order or neaten
- head into a specified direction
- have a bowel movement
- undergo fabrication or creation
- be suitable for
- add up to
- amount to
- constitute the essence of
- appear to begin an activity
- proceed along a path
- reach in time
- gather and light the materials for
- prepare for eating by applying heat
- induce to have sex
- assure the success of
- consider as being
- calculate as being
- cause to be enjoyable or pleasurable
- favor the development of
- develop into
- behave in a certain manner
- eliminate urine
noun
verb
- To pretend to be; to behave in the manner of.
- To do something by chance, without intending to do it.
- To carry through; to succeed in.
- To begin to have an opinion or feeling.
- To take a position relative to something else in a sequence.
- To become butter by being churned.
- Happen.
- To have a certain social background.
- To move from further away to nearer to.
- To move towards the listener.
- To move towards the object that is the focus of the sentence.
- To appear, to manifest itself.
- To be or have been a resident or native.
- To approach a state of being or accomplishment.
- To be supplied, or made available; to exist.
- To move towards an unstated agent.
- To move towards the speaker.
- To begin (at a certain location); to radiate or stem (from).
- To move towards the agent or subject of the main clause.
- To achieve orgasm; to cum; to ejaculate.
- To germinate.
- To take a particular approach or point of view in regard to something.
- To arrive.
- To have been brought up by or employed by.
prep
intj
- An exclamation to express annoyance.
- An exclamation to express encouragement, or to precede a request.
noun
verb
noun
verb
- pretend to be somebody in the framework of a game or playful activity
- participate in games or sport
- act or have an effect in a specified way or with a specific effect or outcome
- play on an instrument
- play a role or part
- be at play; be engaged in playful activity; amuse oneself in a way characteristic of children
- replay (as a melody)
- perform music on (a musical instrument)
- pretend to have certain qualities or state of mind
- move or seem to move quickly, lightly, or irregularly
- bet or wager (money)
- engage in recreational activities rather than work; occupy oneself in a diversion
- emit recorded sound
- perform on a certain location
- put (a card or piece) into play during a game, or act strategically as if in a card game
- engage in an activity as if it were a game rather than take it seriously
- behave in a certain way
- cause to emit recorded audio or video
- manipulate manually or in one's mind or imagination
- use to one's advantage
- consider not very seriously
- be received or accepted or interpreted in a specific way
- behave carelessly or indifferently
- cause to move or operate freely within a bounded space
- perform on a stage or theater
- be performed or presented for public viewing
- cause to happen or to occur as a consequence
- discharge or direct or be discharged or directed as if in a continuous stream
- make bets
- stake on the outcome of an issue
- shoot or hit in a particular manner
- use or move
- employ in a game or in a specific position
- contend against an opponent in a sport, game, or battle
- exhaust by allowing to pull on the line
noun
- a dramatic work intended for performance by actors on a stage
- a theatrical performance of a drama
- a preset plan of action in team sports
- a deliberate coordinated movement requiring dexterity and skill
- a state in which action is feasible
- utilization or exercise
- an attempt to get something
- activity by children that is guided more by imagination than by fixed rules
- (in games or plays or other performances) the time during which play proceeds
- the removal of constraints
- a weak and tremulous light
- verbal wit or mockery (often at another's expense but not to be taken seriously)
- movement or space for movement
- gay or light-hearted recreational activity for diversion or amusement
- (game) the activity of doing something in an agreed succession
- the act of playing for stakes in the hope of winning (including the payment of a price for a chance to win a prize)
- the act using a sword (or other weapon) vigorously and skillfully
verb
adv
- Acting in strange or perverse way.
- Strangely, oddly.
- To greater degree than is usual.
- Such as to be strange or odd.
- In a manner that is greater than usual.
- Mostly or solely associated with.
- In a strange or perverse manner; strangely.
- Strongly associated with; in a manner that is peculiar or restricted to some person or place.
verb
- To mock or tease, treat lightly, toy with.
- To display; to have as a notable feature.
- To close (a door).
- To assume suddenly a new and different character from the rest of the plant or from the type of the species; said of a bud, shoot, plant, or animal.
- To amuse oneself, to play.
- To practise the diversions of the field or the turf; to be given to betting, as upon races.
- To divert; to amuse; to make merry.
- To represent by any kind of play.
noun
- Any activity that uses physical exertion or skills competitively under a set of rules that is not based on aesthetics.
- A friend or acquaintance (chiefly used when speaking to the friend in question)
- Term of endearment used by an adult for a child, usually a boy.
- A sportsman; a gambler.
- One who consorts with disreputable people, including prostitutes.
- A person who exhibits either good or bad sportsmanship.
- A toy; a plaything; an object of mockery.
- Gaming for money as in racing, hunting, fishing.
- Somebody who behaves or reacts in an admirably good-natured manner, e.g. to being teased or to losing a game; a good sport.
- A plant or an animal, or part of a plant or animal, which has some peculiarity not usually seen in the species; an abnormal variety or growth. The term encompasses both mutants and organisms with non-genetic developmental abnormalities such as birth defects.
verb
- To pretend; counterfeit; simulate.
- To apply with energy.
- To design mechanically or artistically; fashion; mold.
- To fix the mind upon (something, or something to be accomplished); be intent upon
- To bend or turn; direct, as one’s course or journey.
- To fix the mind on; attend to; take care of; superintend; regard.
- To strain; make tense.
verb
- To play in a comedic manner.
- To exhibit an effigy of Guy Fawkes around the 5th November.
- To make fun of, to ridicule with wit or innuendo.
- To equip with a support cable.
noun
- A support rope or cable used to aid in hoisting or lowering.
- An effigy of a man burned on a bonfire on the anniversary of the Gunpowder Plot (5th November).
- Buster, Mack, fella, bud, man.
- character, personality (not referring to a person, but pretending to)
- A support to secure or steady structures prone to shift their position or be carried away (e.g. the mast of a ship or a suspension bridge).
- A person (see usage notes).
- A man, fellow.
adj
- Mock, pretended.
- Imitative; characterized by resemblance to other forms; applied to crystals which by twinning resemble simple forms of a higher grade of symmetry.
- Pertaining to mimicry; imitative.
verb
- To imitate, especially in order to ridicule.
- To take on the appearance of another, for protection or camouflage.
noun
verb
- To play mischievous pranks on.
- To pull, haul, or move (something) with great effort, like a horse would.
- To frolic, to act mischievously. (Usually followed by "around".)
- To sit astride of; to bestride.
- To take or carry on the back.
- To flog.
- To cram (food) quickly, indiscriminately or in great volume.
- To copulate with (a mare).
- To place (someone) on the back of another person, or on a wooden horse, chair, etc., to be flogged or punished.
- To provide with a horse; supply horses for.
noun
- A hoofed mammal, Equus ferus caballus, often used throughout history for riding and draft work.
- A breastband for a leadsman.
- A timber frame shaped like a horse, which soldiers were made to ride for punishment.
- Any current or extinct animal of the family Equidae, including zebras and asses.
- An iron bar for a sheet traveller to slide upon.
- In gymnastics, a piece of equipment with a body on two or four legs, approximately four feet high, sometimes (pommel horse) with two handles on top.
- The chess piece representing a knight, depicted as a horse.
- Cavalry soldiers (sometimes capitalized when referring to an official category).
- A frame with legs, used to support something.
- A mass of earthy matter, or rock of the same character as the wall rock, occurring in the course of a vein, as of coal or ore; hence, to take horse (said of a vein) is to divide into branches for a distance.
- A prison guard who smuggles contraband in or out for prisoners.
- The flesh of a horse as an item of cuisine.
- A xiangqi piece, that moves and captures one point orthogonally and then one point diagonally.
- Any member of the species Equus ferus, including the Przewalski's horse and the extinct Equus ferus ferus.
- A jackstay.
- An informal variant of basketball in which players match shots made by their opponent(s), each miss adding a letter to the word "horse", with 5 misses spelling the whole word and eliminating a player, until only the winner is left. Also HORSE, H-O-R-S-E or H.O.R.S.E. (see H-O-R-S-E on Wikipedia.Wikipedia).
- A large and sturdy person.
- Heroin (drug).
- A rope stretching along a yard, upon which men stand when reefing or furling the sails; footrope.
verb
- To trick someone in order to make them do something.
- To cause to happen.
- To level to rise in one part of a body of water, especially a shallow one, because of a storm surge caused by persistent wind.
- To profess openly; to make pretensions.
- To matchmake; to arrange a date between two people.
- To provide the money or other support that someone needs for an important task or activity.
- To arrange logically.
- To cause to take flight; to flush into the air.
- To establish someone in a business or position.
- To gel or harden.
- To trap or ensnare.
- To ready something for use.
- To create a goalscoring opportunity (for).
- To make (someone) proud or conceited (often in passive).
- To ready for use.
- To found; to start (a business, scheme)
- To arrange for an outcome; to tamper or rig.
- To deceive an opponent and capitalize on their reactions with a certain technique or maneuver.
adj
verb
noun
- Mother.
- A type of strong beer, originally made in Brunswick, Germany.
- A decoration made originally of a real chrysanthemum but now usually an artificial (silk) flower combined with ribbons and marked with such indicators as the wearer's name, school name, the year, and so on; traditionally worn by girls at high school homecoming celebrations.
- A chrysanthemum.
intj
adj
verb
verb
- To portray by mimicry or acting; to act the part or character of
- To form or image again in consciousness, as an object of cognition or apprehension (something presentative, which was originally apprehended by direct presentation).
- To portray visually; to delineate
- To act as a representative of (a country, state, district etc.)
- To constitute, to make up, to be an example of.
- To participate as a team member
- To present again, for instance for medical attention.
- To constitute a good example or symbol of a group of people; to acquit oneself well.
- To serve as a sign or symbol of
- To stand or act in the place of; to perform the duties, exercise the rights, or otherwise act on behalf of
- To bring a certain sensation of into the mind; to cause to be known, felt, or apprehended; to present.
- To present again or anew; to present by means of something standing in the place of; to exhibit the counterpart or image of; to typify.
- To portray to another using language; to show; to give one's own impressions and judgement of
- To give an account of; to describe.
adj
adv
noun
noun
- An act, show, façade, persona: an intentional and false impression of oneself.
- An area where armies are engaged in conflict, especially the line of contact.
- A major military subdivision of the Soviet Army.
- A grill (jewellery worn on front teeth).
- The foremost side of something or the end that faces the direction it normally moves.
- A seafront or coastal promenade.
- A person or institution acting as the public face of some other, covert group.
- The beginning.
- A field of activity.
- The lateral space occupied by an element measured from the extremity of one flank to the extremity of the other flank.
- The most conspicuous part.
- That which covers the foremost part of the head: a front piece of false hair worn by women.
- The side of a building with the main entrance.
- When a combat situation does not exist or is not assumed, the direction toward which the command is faced.
- The direction of the enemy.
- The interface or transition zone between two airmasses of different density, often resulting in precipitation. Since the temperature distribution is the most important regulator of atmospheric density, a front almost invariably separates airmasses of different temperature.
adj
- Closest or nearest, of a set of futures contracts which expire at particular times, or of the times they expire; (typically, the front month or front year is the next calender month or year after the current one).
- Located at or near the front.
- Pronounced with the highest part of the body of the tongue toward the front of the mouth, near the hard palate (most often describing a vowel).
verb
- To face up to, to meet head-on, to confront.
- To provide money or financial assistance in advance to.
- To deceive or attempt to deceive someone with false or disingenuous appearances (on).
- To appear before.
- To move (a word or clause) to the start of a sentence (or series of adjectives, etc).
- To pronounce with the tongue in a front position.
- To adorn with, at the front; to put on the front.
- To assume false or disingenuous appearances.
- Of an alter in dissociative identity disorder: to be the currently actively presenting member of (a system), in control of the patient's body.
- To act as a front (for); to cover (for).
- To lead or be the spokesperson of (a campaign, organisation etc.).
- To face, be opposite to.
verb
verb
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