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Pretend

/prɪˈtend/

To act as if something is true when it is not true

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Let's pretend we're on a spaceship.She didn't pretend to know the answer.

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Late Middle English, borrowed from Anglo-French pretendre, from Latin praetendere, meaning stretch forth, simulate, composed of prae- meaning before and tendere meaning to stretch.

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