Another Word For FAKE_IT

fake it till one makes it

Verb : (psychology) To pretend to be a certain way until one becomes that way.

pretend

Verb : (intransitive or with 'that' clause or 'to' infinitive) To speak or behave so as to give a false or simulated appearance.

Verb : To engage in make-believe.

Verb : (transitive) To feign, affect (a state, quality, etc.).

fake it until one makes it

Verb : Alternative form of fake it till one makes it. [(psychology) To pretend to be a certain way until one becomes that way.]

come

Verb : To move toward the speaker.

Verb : To move toward the listener.

Verb : (intransitive) To move nearer to the point of perspective.

feign

Verb : To make a false show or pretence of; to counterfeit or simulate.

Verb : To imagine; to invent; to pretend to do something.

Verb : To make an action as if doing one thing, but actually doing another, for example to trick an opponent; to feint.

play-act

Verb : (intransitive, figuratively) To engage in pretence or insincere behavior, often in order to mislead someone or gain an advantage.

Verb : (transitive, figuratively) To make a pretence of; to feign or simulate.

Verb : (transitive) To play (a scene, role etc.); to act out.

fake

Noun : Something which is not genuine, or is presented fraudulently.

Noun : (sports) A move meant to deceive an opposing player, used for gaining advantage for example when dribbling an opponent.

Noun : (archaic) A trick; a swindle

pass as

Verb : To be able to convince others that one is something contrary to fact; to look sufficiently like something or someone that one can purport to be it.

outpretend

Verb : (transitive) To surpass in pretending.

assimulate

Verb : (obsolete) To assimilate.

Verb : (obsolete) To feign; to counterfeit; to simulate.

impersonate

Verb : (transitive) To pretend to be (a different person); to assume the identity of, especially when there is an intent to deceive.

Verb : (transitive, computing) To operate with the permissions of a different user account.

Verb : (obsolete, transitive) To manifest in corporeal form; to personify.

put on

Verb : (transitive) To don (clothing, equipment, or the like).

Verb : (intransitive, transitive) To fool, kid, deceive.

Verb : (ditransitive) To decorate or dress (something) onto another person or a surface.

perform

Verb : (ambitransitive) To do (something) in front of an audience, such as acting or music, often in order to entertain.

Verb : (transitive) To do (something); to execute.

Verb : (intransitive) To exhibit an expected pattern of behavior; to function; to work.

make believe

Verb : (idiomatic, childish) To pretend or imagine.

Adjective : imaginary; conjured in someone's imagination, especially that of a child

Noun : Alternative form of make-believe. [(uncountable) The quality or act of pretending; acting as if something is true when in fact one knows it is not.]

carry off

Verb : (transitive, idiomatic) To act convincingly; to succeed at giving the impression of (e.g.) knowledge, confidence, or familiarity.

Verb : (transitive) To achieve (something); to succeed at (something).

Verb : (transitive) To transport away.

keep up appearances

Verb : (idiomatic) To artificially maintain an outward sign of normality; to maintain an appearance of wealth, comfort, or propriety.

pose

Verb : (transitive) To place in an attitude or fixed position, for the sake of effect.

Verb : (transitive) To constitute (a danger, a threat, a risk, etc.).

Verb : (transitive) To ask; to set (a test, quiz, riddle, etc.).

affect

Verb : (transitive) To influence or alter.

Verb : (transitive) To move to emotion.

Verb : (transitive) To make a show of; to put on a pretense of; to feign; to assume. To make a false display of.

intend

Verb : (ambitransitive, usually followed by particle "to" + verb, or "on"/"upon" + noun) To fix the mind upon (something, or something to be accomplished); be intent upon

Verb : To fix the mind on; attend to; take care of; superintend; regard.

Verb : To bend or turn; direct, as one’s course or journey.

make like

Verb : (colloquial, chiefly US, with clause) To behave as though.

Verb : (colloquial, chiefly US, with a noun) To behave in the manner of.

personate

Verb : (transitive) To portray a character (as in a play); to act.

Verb : (transitive) To fraudulently portray another person; to impersonate.

Verb : (transitive) To attribute personal characteristics to something; to personify.

attitudinize

Verb : (intransitive) To assume an attitude or pose, especially one which is affected, exaggerated, or unnatural; to posture, to posturize; also, to excessively practise adopting attitudes or poses.

Verb : (transitive) To cause (someone or something) to assume an attitude or pose; to pose, to posture.

Verb : (transitive) To give the appearance of, or make a show of, (something) by assuming an affected or exaggerated attitude.

make semblant

Verb : (obsolete) To appear (to do something); to make a show of.

represent

Verb : (transitive) To stand or act in the place of; to perform the duties, exercise the rights, or otherwise act on behalf of

Verb : (politics, transitive) To act as a representative of (a country, state, district etc.)

Verb : (transitive) To portray to another using language; to show; to give one's own impressions and judgement of

pretex

Verb : Obsolete spelling of pretext. [To employ a pretext, which involves using a false or contrived purpose for soliciting the gain of something else.]

imitate

Verb : To follow as a model or a pattern; to make a copy, counterpart or semblance of.

take

Verb : (transitive) To get into one's hands, possession, or control, with or without force.

Verb : (transitive) To seize or capture.

Verb : (transitive) To catch or get possession of (fish or game).

give a good account of oneself

Verb : (idiomatic) To act in a creditable manner.

look

Noun : The action of looking; an attempt to see.

Noun : (often plural) Physical appearance, visual impression.

Noun : A facial expression.

look the part

Verb : (idiomatic) To appear suitable for a particular kind of work, position or role.

play

Noun : (uncountable, formerly countable) Activity for amusement only, especially among the young.

Noun : (uncountable) Similar activity in young animals, as they explore their environment and learn new skills.

Noun : (uncountable) The conduct, or course, of a game.

play up

Verb : (transitive) To make or attempt to make something appear more important, likely, or obvious; to showcase or highlight.

Verb : (British, idiomatic) To misbehave.

Verb : (transitive, slang) To be unfaithful to a lover; to cheat; used with on.

make

Verb : (transitive) To create.

Verb : To build, construct, produce, or originate.

Verb : To write or compose.

collogue

Verb : (rare) To talk privately or secretly; to conspire.

Verb : (transitive) To coax; to flatter.

Verb : (intransitive) To simulate belief.

dress up

Verb : (intransitive) To put on special or fancy clothes.

Verb : (intransitive, often with 'as') To put on a costume portraying oneself as a particular type of character or well-known person.

Verb : (transitive, often with 'as') To put a costume on (someone) portraying them as a particular type of character or well-known person.

posture

Noun : The way a person holds and positions their body.

Noun : One's attitude or the social or political position one takes towards an issue or another person.

Noun : A situation or condition.

belike

Verb : (archaic or dialectal, especially Northern England) Likely, probably, perhaps, haply.

Verb : (impersonal) To be pleasing to; please.

Verb : (transitive) To like; be pleased with.

flatter

Verb : To compliment someone, often (but not necessarily) insincerely and sometimes to win favour.

Verb : To enhance or gratify someone's vanity by praising them.

Verb : To portray someone to advantage.

put on airs

Verb : (idiomatic) To become haughty, to assume a pretentious manner.

act up

Verb : (intransitive, idiomatic) To misbehave; to cause trouble.

Verb : (intransitive, idiomatic) To perform the duties of an appointment senior to that actually held; to deputise for a superior.

play house

Verb : (children's games) To pretend to be a family in the household, acting out housekeeping and different family roles.

Noun : A child's toy domestic dwelling, large enough for the child to enter.

Noun : A dollhouse.

emulate

Verb : To copy or imitate, especially a person.

Verb : (computing) of a program or device: to imitate another program or device

Verb : (now rare) To attempt to equal or be the same as.

resemble

Verb : (transitive) To be like or similar to (something); to represent as similar.

Verb : (transitive, now rare, archaic) To compare; to regard as similar, to liken.

Verb : (obsolete, transitive) To counterfeit; to imitate.

play to

Verb : To act in a way most suitable to; to act in a way that best brings out (a quality, condition, etc.).

Verb : To act in order to gain the attention or admiration of.

Verb : Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see play, to.

pageant

Noun : An elaborate public display, especially a parade in historical or traditional costume.

Noun : A spectacular ceremony.

Noun : (obsolete) A wheeled platform for the exhibition of plays, etc.

presume

Verb : (transitive) To assume or suggest to be true (without proof); to take for granted, to suppose.

Verb : (transitive) To be so presumptuous as (to do something) without proper authority or permission [with to (+ infinitive)].

Verb : (intransitive) To impose (on) for one's advantage; to be presumptuous; to take advantage (of); to take liberties (with) [with on or upon].

portray

Verb : To play a role; to depict a character, person, situation, or event.

Verb : (figuratively) To describe in words; to convey.

Verb : (figuratively) To represent by an image or look.

style it out

Verb : To appear confident.

Verb : (British) To pretend not to be embarrassed; to deny that an embarrassing thing ever happened.

obtend

Verb : (obsolete) To oppose; to hold out in opposition.

Verb : (obsolete) To offer as the reason for something; to pretend.

fictionalize

Verb : (transitive) To retell (something) real (e.g., an event or series of events) as if it were fiction; especially, to do so in a way that departs from reality in any extent from mild to extensive (from minor details to essential substance).

Verb : (transitive) To convert (something) real into a novel or other dramatic work.

fill one's boots

Verb : (informal) To eat heartily.

Verb : (idiomatic) To perform at a high level in one's official role.

get into character

Verb : Of an actor, to put oneself into the mindset of the character they are playing.

understudy

Noun : A performer who understudies; a standby for a study (9).

capture

Noun : An act of capturing; a seizing by force or stratagem.

Noun : Something that has been captured; a captive.

Noun : The securing of an object of strife or desire, as by the power of some attraction.

playact

Verb : Alternative form of play-act. [(intransitive) To perform on stage; to act in a play.]

dress the part

Verb : To wear the clothing that is appropriate to a role.

make out

Verb : (slang, chiefly US, intransitive) To embrace and kiss passionately.

Verb : (slang, chiefly US, intransitive) To engage in heavy petting or sexual intercourse.

Verb : (slang, chiefly US, intransitive) To get along with (someone).

hold one's own

Verb : (idiomatic) To demonstrate oneself to be capable; to provide a respectable performance or worthy competition; to stick up for oneself.

play into someone's hands

Verb : To act, or to manage matters, to someone's advantage or benefit.

fill someone's shoes

Verb : (idiomatic) To do (somebody's) job; to perform or assume (somebody's) role.

methodize

Verb : (transitive) To make orderly or methodical; to arrange in a systematic manner.

Verb : To perform a theatrical role in accordance with the principles of method acting.

Verb : (obsolete, transitive) To convert or adapt to Methodism.

cover

Noun : A lid.

Noun : (uncountable) Area or situation which screens a person or thing from view.

Noun : The front and back of a book, magazine, CD package, etc.

act out

Verb : (ambitransitive) To express internal feelings or thoughts.

Verb : To express one's feelings through disruptive actions.

Verb : To express ideas or desires through actions rather than words.

handle oneself

Verb : (idiomatic) to behave

Verb : (idiomatic) to conduct oneself or to perform (in a specified manner)

simulate

Verb : To model, replicate, duplicate the behavior, appearance or properties of.

stand in for

Verb : (idiomatic, transitive) To replace; to act as a double or substitute for.

behave oneself

Verb : To act in a polite or proper way.

bear oneself

Verb : (idiomatic) To behave and conduct oneself in a particular manner.

habilitate

Verb : (transitive) To enable one to function in a given manner; to make one capable of performing a given function or of conducting something; to make one fit to fulfill a given purpose or competent to act within a particular role.

Verb : (intransitive) To qualify oneself, through a demonstration of ability, to function in a certain capacity or to act within a certain role.

Verb : In European institutions of higher education, to qualify as an instructor or professor, usually by defending a dissertation or similar project.

impersonize

Verb : (archaic, transitive) To manifest in corporeal form; to personify.

doctor up

Verb : (transitive) To falsify, or modify something, so that it appears to be better than it is.

Verb : (transitive) To train medical students.

fabricate

Verb : (transitive) To form by art and labor; to manufacture; to produce.

Verb : (transitive) To form into a whole by uniting its parts; to construct; to build.

Verb : (transitive) To invent and form; to forge; to devise falsely.

artificialise

Verb : Alternative form of artificialize. [(transitive) To render artificial.]

artificialize

Verb : (transitive) To render artificial.

purport

Noun : Import, intention or purpose.

Noun : (obsolete) A disguise; a covering.

play off

Verb : (sports, intransitive, transitive) To compete in a play-off; to compete against (an opponent) in a play-off.

Verb : (transitive, often with as) To portray (something) (as unimportant); to dismiss or make light of (a factor in a situation, or one's embarrassment about it); to pretend not to be embarrassed, upset, impressed, or otherwise affected by (it).

Verb : (transitive) To set (other people) against one another: to induce competition between them, especially in a covert way so that they do not realize the degree to which they have been played (manipulated).

fabulize

Verb : To compose or relate fables or fictions; to give a false account of.

Verb : (transitive, nonstandard, slang) To make fabulous, improve.

theatricize

Verb : (transitive) To make theatrical.

Verb : (intransitive) To play a part.

look like

Verb : (transitive) To resemble or have the appearance of being; to seem to be.

enact

Verb : (transitive, law) To make (a bill) into law.

Verb : (transitive) To act the part of; to play.

Verb : (transitive) To do; to effect.

personify

Verb : (transitive) To create a representation of (an abstract quality) in the form of a character or persona.

Verb : (transitive) To be an example of; to have all the attributes of.

show

Noun : (countable) A play, dance, or other entertainment.

Noun : (countable) An exhibition of items.

Noun : (countable) A broadcast program, especially a light entertainment program.

semble

Verb : (law, third-person singular only) It seems; it appears that

Adjective : (obsolete) Like; resembling.

Verb : (obsolete) To imitate; to make a representation or likeness.

have

Verb : (transitive) To possess, own.

Verb : (transitive) To hold, as something at someone's disposal.

Verb : (transitive) To include as a part, ingredient, or feature.

mimetize

Verb : To mimic

virtualize

Verb : (transitive, computing) To simulate (or make virtual) some effect or condition on a computer.

Verb : (transitive, computing) To run a program in virtual storage.

Verb : (transitive, art) To make or conform to a virtual reality.

carry oneself

Verb : (idiomatic) To behave, especially with respect to how one's speech, body language, facial expressions, and grooming convey one's opinion concerning oneself.

Verb : (idiomatic) To move, especially emphasizing the manner in which one moves.

profess

Verb : (ambitransitive) To declare; to assert, affirm.

Verb : (transitive) To make a claim (to be something); to lay claim to (a given quality, feeling etc.), often with connotations of insincerity.

Verb : (transitive) To declare one's adherence to (a religion, deity, principle etc.).

make up

Verb : To constitute, to compose.

Verb : (transitive) To constitute the components of a whole.

Verb : To compensate, to fill in, to catch up.

deputize

Verb : (transitive) to officially empower and authorize (someone) to act as a substitute in one's role or office

Verb : (transitive) To officially empower, authorize, pronounce, and establish (someone) to be a deputy.

Verb : (intransitive) To act as a substitute for a person in their role or office

pass out

Verb : (transitive) To distribute.

Verb : (of soldiers, police, fire-fighters, etc.) To graduate, usually marked by a ceremony at the end of training.

Verb : (India) To graduate from university.

talk the talk

Verb : (informal, idiomatic, intransitive) To make statements that profess commitment, knowledgeability, or intended action (especially when the speaker's actual commitment, knowledge, or further action are in doubt).

sycophantize

Verb : (archaic) To act like a sycophant.

hold the fort

Verb : To assume or take responsibility, especially in another's absence.

Verb : To maintain a secure position.

formalize

Verb : To give something a formal or official standing.

Verb : (transitive) To give something a definite form; to shape.

Verb : (intransitive) To develop into a definite form.

glamorize

Verb : (transitive) To make or give the appearance of being glamorous.

Verb : (transitive) To glorify; to romanticize.

set up

Verb : (transitive) To make ready for use.

Verb : (transitive) To arrange logically.

Verb : (transitive) To cause to happen.

double

Adjective : Made up of two matching or complementary elements.

Adjective : Of twice the quantity.

Adjective : Of a family relationship, related on both the maternal and paternal sides of a family.

look one's age

Verb : To look as old as one actually is.

present

Noun : The current moment or period of time.

Noun : (grammar) The present tense.

Noun : A gift, especially one given for birthdays, Christmas, anniversaries, graduations, weddings, or any other special occasions.

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