pretend to



adopt, affect, appropriate, arrogate, assume, attempt, challenge, claim, dare, encroach, endeavour, infringe, invade, pretend, seize,

   elaborately - extravagantly, grandly, impressively, magnificently, nobly, proudly, splendidly, superbly ,

   the picture - approach, arrangement, attack, blueprint, calculation, conception, contrivance, data, design, details, device, disposition, dope, enterprise, essential,

   public image - affectation, affectedness, airs, airs and graces, apparent character, appearances, artificiality, display, exteriors, external appearance, externals, false front, false show, fa?§ade, feigned belief,

   carried - accepted, adopted, approved, chosen, elect, elected, hand-picked, named, nominated, passed, picked, ratified, select ,

   excursus - aberration, article, aside, bend, bias, byway, causerie, circling, circuitry, circularity, circulation, circumlocution, corner, crook, curve,

   basics - alphabet, element, elements, grammar, heart, induction, meat, outline, primer, principles, rudiments, staple ,

   dwarfed - Lenten, Lilliputian, Spartan, abstemious, ascetic, austere, bandy, bandy-legged, blemished, bloated, bow-legged, club-footed, defaced, deformed, disfigured,

   lethargy - abstraction, alienation, aloofness, anxiety, anxiety equivalent, anxiety state, apathy, asininity, blah, blahs, boorishness, boredom, catalepsy, catatonic stupor, cloddishness,

   bereaved - beggared, beggarly, bereaved of, bereft, cut off, denuded, deprived, deprived of, disadvantaged, distressed, divested, fatherless, fleeced, ghettoised, impoverished,

   crown with success - accomplish, achieve, bring off, carry off, compass, do the trick, get away with, get by, pull off, put across, put over, put through, succeed, turn the trick ,