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dissimulate

verbCommon GRE wordMore D words

to disguise or hide one's true feelings, motives, or intentions behind a false outward show

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Dissimulate in a sentence

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He learned to dissimulate his disappointment, smiling pleasantly even as the deal collapsed around him.

Synonyms
dissemblefeignmaskdisguise
Antonyms
revealdisclose

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Verbal · Text Completion

Although the senator's memoir was marketed as a frank reckoning with his failures, reviewers found it relentlessly blank, dwelling on grievances and recasting every setback as the fault of his adversaries.

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Dissimulate (verb) means to disguise or hide one's true feelings, motives, or intentions behind a false outward show
Here is dissimulate used in an example sentence: "He learned to dissimulate his disappointment, smiling pleasantly even as the deal collapsed around him."
Common synonyms for dissimulate include dissemble, feign, mask, disguise.
Antonyms of dissimulate include reveal, disclose.
Dissimulate is a GRE-level vocabulary word worth knowing for the Verbal section.

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