3 synonym groups for Pretend

pretending, feigning, simulating, counterfeiting, imitating, forging, fabricating, falsifying, masquerading, shamming, bluffing, acting, posing, dissembling, duplicating, mimicking, copying, replicating, aping, spoofing, hoaxing, deceiving, tricking, misleading, cheating, lying, inventing, concocting, manufacturing, contriving, staging, projecting [x]

pretend, simulate, fake, assume, bluff, counterfeit, sham, act, masquerade, dissemble, fabricate, invent, forge, imitate, affect, pose, put on, play-act, make believe, put up a front, give the appearance of, go through the motions, play the part, play the role, put on an act, put on a show put on a facade, put on a front, put on airs, make a pretense of, make a show of, make out, make as if, make like, make a pretense, make a show, make a false show, make a false display, make a false front, make a false appearance, make a false impression, make a false representation, make a false pretense, make a false pretext, make a false claim, make a false assertion, make a false statement, make a false declaration [x]

pretending, feigning, simulating, faking, acting, dissembling masquerading, bluffing, shamming, posturing, putting on, making believe, play-acting, counterfeiting, imitating, mimicking, aping, duplicating, replicating, copying, impersonating, assuming, projecting, posing, fabricating, inventing, concocting, devising, contriving, forging, manufacturing, producing, creating, generating, originating, engendering, spawning [x]