pretend - noun

the enactment of a pretense

pretend - verb

• make believe with the intent to deceive
• behave unnaturally or affectedly
• put forward a claim and assert right or possession of
• put forward, of a guess, in spite of possible refutation
• represent fictitiously, as in a play, or pretend to be or act like
• state insincerely

pretend - adjective

• imagined as in a play

pretend - thesaurus

act   affect   dissemble   feign   guess   hazard   make   profess   sham   venture