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单词 feign
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feign
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For a more formal way to say pretend to or imitate, choose the verb feign. You might feign indifference when you hear about some gossip, but you're probably dying to know.
Feign comes from the Latin fingere "to devise, fabricate." The word fiction comes from the same source, so if you feign something such as sleep, you give off the fiction that you are sleeping. This can done to be polite but also to deceive such as when you feign an injury or the flu so you can stay home from school or work. You can also feign an accent, though some are better at this than others.
WORD FAMILY
feign: feigned, feigning, feigns+/feigned: feignedly, unfeigned/feigning: feignings/unfeigned: unfeignedly
USAGE EXAMPLES
Lyster feigns ignorance of other cultural reference points, too, varying the reference point to generate maximum confusion in her target.
Slate(Dec 22, 2016)
I feigned a headache and am now “working from home.”
Slate(Dec 20, 2016)
I weighed the option of just feigning ignorance, but being detained, or worse, jailed in Congo, is a horrible prospect.
Washington Post(Nov 21, 2016)
1v make believe with the intent to deceive
He feigned that he was ill
Syn|Hypo|Hyper
affect, dissemble, pretend, sham
make, make believe, pretend
represent fictitiously, as in a play, or pretend to be or act like
play possum
to pretend to be dead
take a dive
pretend to be knocked out, as of a boxer
bull, bullshit, fake, talk through one's hat
speak insincerely or without regard for facts or truths
mouth
articulate silently; form words with the lips only
lip-sync, lip-synch
move the lips in synchronization (with recorded speech or song)
belie, misrepresent
represent falsely
2v make a pretence of
he feigned sleep
Syn|Hypo|Hyper
assume, sham, simulate
play
pretend to be somebody in the framework of a game or playful activity
feint
deceive by a mock action
act, dissemble, pretend
behave unnaturally or affectedly
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