Pose+affectedly
11pretend — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) v. sham, feign, dissemble, simulate; counterfeit, lie, fake; claim, aver. See falsehood. II (Roget s IV) v. 1. [To feign] Syn. feign, affect, simulate, claim falsely, profess, make a pretense, imitate,… …
12simulate — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) v. t. imitate, resemble, mimic; feign, counterfeit, pretend. See falsehood, imitation. II (Roget s IV) v. Syn. feign, pretend, counterfeit, dissemble, imitate, mimic, misrepresent, sham, fake, assume,… …
13attitudinize — v pose, strike a pose, assume an attitude, put on airs; camp, camp it up, behave affectedly, show off, put on an act; imitate, mimic, ape, pretend, feign, make believe …
14Averroes — Alfred Ivry Abū’l Walīd Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad ibn Rushd (1126–98) needs to be known only as Averroes to be familiar to students of philosophy in the West. Greatly respected as a commentator on Aristotle’s writings, Averroes was also strongly… …
15counterfeit — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) adj. false, sham, fake, forged, bogus, bastard, spurious, phony (inf.). n. forgery, fake, slug, sham, brummagem, dummy, pretense, phony (inf.). See deception, imitation, copy. II (Roget s IV) modif. 1.… …
16dissemble — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) v. pretend, feign, dissimulate; camouflage, conceal. See concealment, falsehood. II (Roget s IV) v. 1. [To disguise] Syn. mask, cover, camouflage; see disguise , hide 1 . 2. [To behave hypocritically]… …
17sham — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) n. counterfeit, imitation, fake; pretense, dissimulation; humbug; imposture. adj. make believe, spurious, bogus, fake. See deception, falsehood, affectation. II (Roget s IV) modif. Syn. misleading, lying …
18put on — I (Roget s IV) v. 1. [To pretend] Syn. feign, sham, make believe; see pretend 1 . 2. [*To deceive] Syn. trick, confuse, confound; see deceive . II (Roget s Thesaurus II) verb 1. To put (an article of clothing) on one s person: assume, don, get on …
19play-act — (Roget s Thesaurus II) verb 1. To play the part of: act, do, enact, impersonate, perform, play, portray, represent. See ACTION, PERFORMING ARTS, SUBSTITUTE. 2. To behave affectedly or insincerely or take on a false or misleading appearance of:… …
20camp — 1) adj homosexual, effeminate or affectedly the atrical in manner, gesture, speech, etc. A word which emerged from theatrical slang into general use in the 1960s. The sense of the term has moved from the specific (a (male) homosexual) to the… …
