| 单词 | imposture |
| 释义 | imposture (once / 3077 pages) n Imposture is the act of pretending to be someone else. Everyone knows the Elvis impersonator isn’t really Elvis himself, but your imposture as Elvis’s long-lost daughter might actually fool some people. Imposture comes from the verb, to impose, and it has the sense of deliberately deceiving someone. Someone who perpetrates an imposture is an imposter. If you go to a job interview and pretend that you graduated from Harvard when really you never even went to college, that is an act of imposture. If the interviewer finds out, she might disgustedly say to you, “Get out, you imposter!” WORD FAMILYimposture: impostures USAGE EXAMPLESMarianne explains that part of her method is to make sure that, whatever the details of the imposture, the feeling is real. New York Times(Nov 22, 2016) Let’s recap — not the election or imposture of Mr. Trump, but the trajectory of the mass-distributed personal update. New York Times(Nov 12, 2016) A more recent imposture, which is still having harmful effects, is the vaccine scare that began in 1998. The New Yorker(Jan 25, 2016) n pretending to be another person Syn|Hyper impersonation deceit, deception, dissembling, dissimulation the act of deceiving |
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