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pretend


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  


    View spelling list Prefixes: per or pre? and learn about the word pretend in the Spellzone English spelling course, Unit 23. Prefixes: when letters need changing..

    Scrabble score for pretend

    p is 3 r is 1 e is 1 t is 1 e is 1 n is 1 d is 2
    Scrabble score = 10

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