All feign synonyms

verb feign

• pretend — to cause or attempt to cause (what is not so) to seem so: to pretend illness; to pretend that nothing is wrong.
• play — a dramatic composition or piece; drama.
• dissimulate — to disguise or conceal under a false appearance; dissemble: to dissimulate one's true feelings about a rival.
• bluff — A bluff is an attempt to make someone believe that you will do something when you do not really intend to do it.
• assume — If you assume that something is true, you imagine that it is true, sometimes wrongly.
• invent — to originate or create as a product of one's own ingenuity, experimentation, or contrivance: to invent the telegraph.
• fake — to lay (a rope) in a coil or series of long loops so as to allow to run freely without fouling or kinking (often followed by down).
• stonewall — to engage in stonewalling.
• fabricate — to make by art or skill and labor; construct: The finest craftspeople fabricated this clock.
• devise — If you devise a plan, system, or machine, you have the idea for it and design it.
• imagine — to form a mental image of (something not actually present to the senses).
• dissemble — to give a false or misleading appearance to; conceal the truth or real nature of: to dissemble one's incompetence in business.
• simulate — to create a simulation, likeness, or model of (a situation, system, or the like): to simulate crisis conditions.
• act — When you act, you do something for a particular purpose.
• forge — to form by heating and hammering; beat into shape.
• affect — If something affects a person or thing, it influences them or causes them to change in some way.
• imitate — to follow or endeavor to follow as a model or example: to imitate an author's style; to imitate an older brother.
• counterfeit — Counterfeit money, goods, or documents are not genuine, but have been made to look exactly like genuine ones in order to deceive people.
• sham — something that is not what it purports to be; a spurious imitation; fraud or hoax.
• make believe — the style or manner in which something is made; form; build.
• play possum — opossum.
• put on — a throw or cast, especially one made with a forward motion of the hand when raised close to the shoulder.
• four-flush — to bluff.