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The enactment of a pretense

Make believe with the intent to deceive

Represent fictitiously, as in a play, or pretend to be or act like

Put forward, of a guess, in spite of possible refutation

State insincerely

Behave unnaturally or affectedly

Put forward a claim and assert right or possession of

Imagined as in a play