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pretend

/pɹəˈtɛnd/ adjectif B2

En français : pour de faux, faire semblant

  1. Not really what it is represented as being; imaginary, feigned. · As children we used to go on "spying" missions around the neighbour's house, but it was all pretend.
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They boast and chatter and pretend that they are a great people about to do great affairs in the jungle, but the falling of a nut turns their minds to laughter and all is forgotten.
The Jungle Book, p. 34 · B2
They would sit in circles on the hall of the king’s council chamber, and scratch for fleas and pretend to be men; or they would run in and out of the roofless houses and collect pieces of plaster and old bricks in a corner, and forget where they had hidden them, and fight and cry in scuffling crowds, and then break off to play up and down the terraces of the king’s garden, where they would shake the rose trees and the oranges in sport to see the fruit and flowers fall.
The Jungle Book, p. 48 · B2
Let’s pretend we are ...
The Jungle Book, p. 63 · B2
Darzee, if you have a grain of sense you will fly off to the stables and pretend that your wing is broken, and let Nagaina chase you away to this bush.
The Jungle Book, p. 78 · B2

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