Verb:

నమ్మకం చేయడానికి, సాకులు చేయడానికి, ధైర్యముచేయుట, తప్పుడు హక్కును చూపించడానికి,

pretend's Usage Examples:

Bad faith (Latin: mala fides) is a sustained form of deception which consists of entertaining or pretending to entertain one set of feelings while acting.

Man Chong knew that Sun Quan was only pretending to retreat to put him off guard, and would come back to attack Hefei again once the reinforcements left.

On the 29th the mock mayor, who had been "supping too freely of the fair ale", was pulled around on a cart to claim his pretend.

An impostor or imposter is a person who pretends to be somebody else.

conceitedly using archaic words, pretending to be wise and in actuality being a boringly pedant, rigid, corruptible, opportunist who constantly emphasizes his aristocratic.

He pretends to be a representative (the Grand Proxy) of the Ferengi ruler, the Grand Nagus, and demands the two return to the Alpha Quadrant so he may confiscate their riches.

"The plant that pretends to be ill".

So, Matt pretended to be his own twin, who was a glibber and more enthusiastic party boy.

the protagonist, says: You thought it meant a swishy little boy with peroxided hair, dressed in a picture hat and a feather boa, pretending to be Marlene.

Diane Coyle, for The Independent, called IOU another pamphlet disguised as a book and opined that It pretends to weigh up the details and evidence, but its tone implies that anyone who disagrees is stupid or bad.

Her final ploy was to pretend to be paraplegic, leaving her as the last suspect.

to cut the telegraph lines, but successfully pretended to be overworked wiremen.

Man Chong suspected that Sun Bu was pretending to defect so he refused and wrote a reply to Sun Bu in Wang Ling's name: It is good to hear that you have recognised the folly of your ways and now desire to leave your tyrannical government and return to the path of righteousness.

Synonyms:

feign, sham, fake, make, dissemble, play possum, misrepresent, affect, make believe, bullshit, mouth, bull, talk through one"s hat, belie, take a dive,

Antonyms:

sedate, strain, de-energize, stimulate, tense,