Faking & pretending
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
The SMART Vocabulary cloud shows the related words and phrases you can find in the Cambridge Dictionary that make up this topic. Click on a word to go to the definition.
- a wolf in sheep's clothing idiom
- act
- affect
- air guitar
- assume
- beard
- believe
- bluff
- bluff someone into something/doing something
- changeling
- charlatan
- come
- come the raw prawn idiom
- come the something idiom
- cosmetic
- cosmetically
- cosplay
- coy
- crocodile tears
- cry
- cry wolf idiom
- decoy
- disguise
- dissemblance
- dissemble
- dissembler
- diversionary
- double bluff
- dress something up as something
- dummy
- emperor
- fake
- faker
- false
- false identity
- false modesty
- false name
- falsifiable
- falsify
- façade
- feign
- fraud
- front
- front for something phrasal verb
- go through the motions idiom
- guise
- head fake
- impostor
- imposture
- inauthentic
- infiltrator
- keep
- keep someone up phrasal verb
- keep up appearances idiom
- kid
- lift
- lip synch
- live
- live a lie idiom
- make
- make like idiom
- malinger
- mask
- masquerade
- masquerade as someone/something phrasal verb
- massage
- motion
- mountebank
- out-bluff
- pass
- pass something off as something phrasal verb
- phoney
- phony-baloney
- play
- play at something phrasal verb
- play possum idiom
- play something out phrasal verb
- playact
- playacting
- pose
- pose as someone phrasal verb
- pretence
- pretend
- pretended
- professed
- pseud
- pseudo-
- pseudo-sophistication
- purport
- put
- put on an act idiom
- put something on phrasal verb
- quack
- quackery
- raw
- roleplay
- sham
- simulate
- snake oil
- someone's mask slips idiom
- spoof
- spoofing
- staged
- the emperor's new clothes idiom
- unauthentic
- under the guise of something/doing something
- wash
- washing
- white
- white out phrasal verb
- wolf
- you can't kid a kidder idiom
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a quality of the human voice, produced by air passing out through the nose as you speak
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