Related Words for fake it

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pretend
x/
Verb, Verb
feign
/
Verb
intend
x/
Verb
assume
x/
Verb
impersonate
x/xx
Verb
mime
/
Noun
fake
/
Noun
make believe
/x/
Phrase, Verb, Adjective, Noun
put on
//
Phrase, Verb
perform
x/
Verb
sham
/
Noun
simulate
/xx
Verb
carry off
/x/
Phrase, Verb
make like
//
Phrase, Verb
make
/
Verb
belie
x/
Verb
pose
/
Verb
come
/
Verb
represent
xx/
Verb
play to
//
Phrase, Verb
emulate
/xx
Verb
look the part
/x/
Phrase, Verb
presume
x/
Verb
understudy
/xxx
Noun
look
/
Noun
practise
/x
Noun
make up
//
Phrase, Verb, Noun
play
/
Noun
purport
/x
Noun
affect
x/
Verb
play up
//
Phrase, Verb
qualify
/xx
Verb
dress up
//
Phrase, Verb
realize
/xx
Verb
train
/
Noun
mimic
/x
Noun
fabricate
/xx
Verb
convince
x/
Verb
invent
x/
Verb
dream up
//
Phrase, Verb
best
/
Adjective
preen
/
Noun
posture
/x
Noun
profess
x/
Verb
king
/
Noun
reach for
//
Phrase, Verb
think
/
Verb
outperform
/xx
Verb
set up
//
Phrase, Verb, Adjective
copy
/x
Noun
masquerade
xx/
Noun
feel like
//
Phrase, Verb
concoct
x/
Verb
look like
//
Phrase, Verb
project
/x
Noun
rely on
x//
Phrase, Verb
suppose
x/
Verb
show off
//
Phrase, Verb, Noun
support
x/
Noun
compete
x/
Verb
come true
//
Phrase, Verb
manage
/x
Verb
formalize
/xx
Verb
have it in one
//x/
Phrase, Verb
show up
//
Phrase, Verb
flatter
/x
Verb
fantasize
/xx
Verb
capture
/x
Noun
provide
x/
Verb
proxy
/x
Noun
enact
x/
Verb
play off
//
Phrase, Verb
believe in
x/x
Phrase, Verb
embellish
x/x
Verb
make out
//
Phrase, Verb
face
/
Noun
work
/
Noun
stand in
/x
Phrase, Noun, Verb
give a good account of oneself
/x/x//x/
Phrase, Verb
veneer
x/
Noun
take
/
Verb
come off
//
Phrase, Verb
personify
x/xx
Verb
work at
//
Phrase, Verb
make shift
//
Phrase, Verb, Adjective, Noun
contrive
x/
Verb
manufacture
xx/x
Noun
marionette
/xx/
Noun
engineer
/x/
Noun
feel
/
Verb
mastermind
/xx
Noun
come across
/x/
Phrase, Verb
craft
/
Noun
employ
x/
Verb
fancy
/x
Noun
imitate
/xx
Verb
replicate
/xx
Noun
make good
//
Phrase, Verb
come on
//
Phrase, Verb
enable
x/x
Verb
conjure up
/xx
Phrase, Verb
portray
x/
Verb
learn
/
Verb
like
/
Verb, Noun, Adjective, Adverb
fill in
/x
Phrase, Verb
insinuate
x/xx
Verb
lay to
//
Phrase, Verb
ac
/
Noun, Adjective, Adverb
adulterated
x/xxx
Adjective
agribusiness
/xxx
Noun
ai
/
Name
alone
x/
Adverb, Adjective
altered
/x
Adjective, Noun
anything
/xx
Noun, Adverb
artificial
xx/x
Adjective
assassin
x/x
Noun, Verb
assistive
x/x
Adjective
at
/
Noun, Adjective
baloney
x/x
Noun
based
/
Verb, Adjective
bastard
/x
Noun, Adjective, Verb
blonde
/
Adjective, Noun, Verb
bluff
/
Noun, Verb, Adjective
bogus
/x
Adjective, Noun
bull
/
Noun, Adjective, Verb
bunk
/
Noun, Verb, Adjective
burlesque
x/
Adjective, Noun, Verb
cake
/
Noun, Verb
canteen
x/
Noun
charade
x/
Noun, Verb
charlatan
/xx
Noun
cheap
/
Adjective, Noun, Verb, Adverb
circus
/x
Noun, Verb
comedy
/xx
Noun
commercial
x/x
Adjective, Noun
cook
/
Noun, Verb
cops
/
Noun
counterfeit
/xx
Adjective, Noun, Verb
cpu
/x
Name
crap
/
Noun, Verb, Adjective
crook
/
Noun, Verb, Adjective
decoy
x/
Noun, Verb
disingenuous
xx/xx
Adjective
distort
x/
Verb, Adjective
doctored
/x
Adjective
dodgy
/x
Adjective
dud
/
Noun, Adjective
dummy
/x
Noun, Verb, Adverb
enterprise
/xx
Noun, Verb
erroneous
x/xx
Adjective
fabrication
xx/x
Noun
fallacious
x/x
Adjective
false
/
Adjective, Verb, Adverb, Noun
falsehood
/x
Noun
falsification
xxx/x
Noun
farce
/
Noun, Verb
faux
/
Adjective, Noun
fictional
/xx
Adjective
fictitious
x/x
Adjective
fictive
/x
Adjective, Noun
firewalls
/x
Noun
fixed
/
Adjective
flawed
/
Adjective
forge
/
Verb, Noun
forger
/x
Noun
forgeries
/xx
Noun
foul
/
Adjective, Noun, Verb
fraud
/
Noun, Verb
fraudulent
/xx
Adjective
fudge
/
Noun, Verb
funny
/x
Adjective, Noun, Adverb
gallon
/x
Noun
gamble
/x
Noun, Verb
garbled
/x
Adjective
genuine
/xx
Adjective
goofy
/x
Adjective, Noun
gossipy
/xx
Adjective
gui
x
Name
hair
/
Noun, Verb
handwritten
/xx
Adjective
hardware
/x
Noun
healthcare
/x
Noun
heartening
/xx
Adjective
heuristics
x/x
Noun
hi
/
Noun, Adjective
hoax
/
Noun, Verb
holiday
/xx
Noun, Verb
hollow
/x
Adjective, Noun, Verb, Adverb
humbug
/x
Noun, Verb
hypocritical
xx/xx
Adjective
i
x
Noun
identification
xxxx/x
Noun
illusive
x/x
Adjective
illusory
x/xx
Adjective
imaginary
x/xxx
Adjective, Noun
imitation
xx/x
Noun
imitative
/xxx
Adjective
impactor
x/x
Noun
implementations
/xx/x
Noun
imposter
x/x
Noun
impostor
x/x
Noun
inaccurate
x/xx
Adjective
incidental
xx/x
Adjective, Noun
incorrect
xx/
Adjective, Noun
incriminating
x/xxx
Adjective
industrial
x/xx
Adjective, Name
infringement
x/x
Noun
innovative
/xxx
Adjective
instant
/x
Noun, Adjective, Adverb
instructional
x/xx
Adjective, Noun
instruments
/xx
Noun
integrated
/xxx
Adjective
ip
/
Name, Adjective
issued
/x
Verb
jug
/
Noun, Verb
juggle
/x
Verb, Noun
knock
/
Verb, Noun
lame
/
Adjective, Noun, Verb
leave
/
Verb, Noun
legend
/x
Noun, Verb
liar
/x
Noun
lie
/
Verb, Noun
macro
/x
Adjective, Noun
manipulate
x/xx
Verb
me
/
Noun
misconception
xx/x
Noun
misguided
x/x
Adjective
misleading
x/x
Adjective, Noun
misrepresent
xxx/
Verb
mistaken
x/x
Adjective
mock
/
Adjective, Verb, Noun
montage
x/
Noun, Verb
multinational
xx/xx
Adjective, Noun
nails
/
Noun, Adjective
nonmilitary
x/xxx
Adjective
not
/
Adverb, Noun
orientated
/xxxx
Adjective
oriented
/xxx
Adjective
outsourced
x/
Adjective
overflow
/xx
Noun, Verb
people
/x
Noun, Verb
phantom
/x
Noun, Adjective
phoney
/x
Adjective, Noun, Verb
phony
/x
Adjective, Noun, Verb
preprinted
x/x
Adjective
pretender
x/x
Noun, Verb
prosthesis
x/x
Noun
prosthetic
x/x
Adjective, Noun
prove
/
Verb, Noun
pseudo
/x
Noun, Adjective
puppet
/x
Noun, Verb
quack
/
Noun, Verb, Adjective
real
/
Adjective, Noun, Adverb
recreate
/xx
Verb
reproduction
xx/x
Noun
rig
/
Noun, Verb
ringer
/x
Noun
sappy
/x
Adjective
scam
/
Noun, Verb
scythe
/
Noun, Verb
semblance
/x
Noun
setup
/x
Noun, Verb
sexy
/x
Adjective