feign
\FEYN\
verb – To represent fictitiously; put on an appearance of. To invent fictitiously or deceptively, as a story or an excuse. To make believe; pretend.
Origin:
Feign enters English through French, from the Latin fingere, “to shape, invent.”
Tags: feign
This entry was posted by admin on Friday, July 22nd, 2011 at
8:10 am and is filed under
Word of the Day .
You can follow any responses to this entry through the
RSS 2.0 feed.
Both comments and pings are currently closed.