puts act

Main Entry:
put on an act
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: act a part
Synonyms: bluff, fake, feign, invent, let on like, make up, play possum, play the part, pose, pretend, simulate
Main Entry: dissemble
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: disguise, pretend
Synonyms: affect, camouflage, cloak, conceal, counterfeit, cover, cover up, dissimulate, double-talk, doublespeak, dress up, fake, falsify, feign, four-flush, hide, let on, make like, mask, pass, play possum, pussyfoot, put on a false front, put on a front, put on an act, put up a front, put up a smoke screen, sham*, shroud, shuck and jive, signify, simulate, stonewall, whitewash
Notes: dissemble means to conceal, to give a false appearance; disassemble means to take apart
Antonyms: admit, allow
Main Entry: fake
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: pretend
Synonyms: act, affect, assume, bluff, copy, counterfeit, disguise, dissimulate, fabricate, feign, forge, put on, put on an act, sham, simulate, spoof
Notes: a fake is a work of art that is deliberately made or altered to appear better, older, or other than what it is; a forgery is a fraudulent imitation of another thing that already exists
Main Entry: falsify
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: alter, misrepresent
Synonyms: adulterate, belie, change, color, con, contort, contradict, contravene, cook, counterfeit, deacon, deceive, deny, distort, doctor, dress up, embroider, equivocate, exaggerate, fake, fake it, fib, forge, four-flush, frame up, garble, gloss, lie, misquote, misstate, palter, pervert, phony up, prevaricate, promote, put on an act, salt, tamper with, traverse, trump up, twist, warp
Main Entry: feign
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: pretend
Synonyms: act, affect, assume, bluff*, counterfeit, devise, dissemble, dissimulate, do a bit, fabricate, fake, forge, four-flush, give appearance of, imagine, imitate, invent, make show of, phony up, play, play possum, put on, put on act, put up a front, sham*, simulate, stonewall
Antonyms: be true
Main Entry: flaunt
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: make an exhibition, show off
Synonyms: advertise, air, boast, brandish, break out, broadcast, declare, disclose, display, disport, divulge, expose, fan it, flash, flash about, flourish, gasconade, grandstand, hotdog, let it all hang out, make a scene, parade, proclaim, put on an act, reveal, roll out, show and tell, showcase, smack with, sport, spring on, streak, throw weight around, trot out, vaunt, wave around, whip out
Notes: one flaunts (makes much of) something of one's own (wealth, good looks, education) while one flouts (disregards or violates) something outside oneself (convention, law, regulation); to flaunt is to show off and to flout is to treat with contempt or disregard with smugness
Antonyms: conceal, hide, refrain
Main Entry: impersonate
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: pretend to be another
Synonyms: act, act a part, act like, act out, ape, assume character, ditto*, do, do an impression of, double as, dress as, enact, fake, imitate, make like, masquerade as, mimic, mirror, pass oneself off as, perform, personate, play, play a role, playact, portray, pose as, put on an act, represent, take the part of
Antonyms: be original, differ, oppose, reverse
Main Entry: misinform
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: give wrong information intentionally
Synonyms: bait and switch, cover up, deceive, disinform, double-talk, doublespeak, lead astray, lie, misdirect, misguide, mislead, misstate, mousetrap, pervert, prevaricate, put on an act, put on false front, put on*, put up smoke screen, signify, string along, wrong steer
Antonyms: inform, tell all
Main Entry: pretend
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: play the part of
Synonyms: act, assume the role, imagine, imitate, impersonate, make as if, make believe, make out like, make up, masquerade, mimic, play, playact, portray, pose, purport, put on a front, put on airs, put on an act, represent, reproduce, suppose
Notes: portend means to indicate (events, misfortunes, etc.) as in future or to foreshadow or to bode; pretend means to make believe with the intent to deceive or to give a false appearance of
Antonyms: be honest
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