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feign

verbCommon GRE wordMore F words

to pretend to have a feeling or condition one does not actually have

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Feign in a sentence

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He would feign illness whenever a difficult assignment came due.

Synonyms
simulateaffectfake
Antonyms
revealdisclose

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Critics complained that the documentary's narration was relentlessly blank, hammering home its single thesis so often that viewers felt lectured rather than informed.

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Feign (verb) means to pretend to have a feeling or condition one does not actually have
Here is feign used in an example sentence: "He would feign illness whenever a difficult assignment came due."
Common synonyms for feign include simulate, affect, fake.
Antonyms of feign include reveal, disclose.
Feign is a GRE-level vocabulary word worth knowing for the Verbal section.

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