masquerade
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- n a party of guests wearing costumes and masks
- n a costume worn as a disguise at a masquerade party
- n making a false outward show
a beggar's masquerade of wealth - v take part in a masquerade
- v pretend to be someone or something that you are not
- Ego was defeated but still maintains the ability to morph into a paradise in order to lure unsuspecting travelers to their doom, and to masquerade as a barren world.
- They are clearly men attempting, with no little difficulty, to masquerade as women.
- The Deceptive Mailings Prevention Act of 1990, which was signed this month by President Bush, bans mail solicitations that masquerade as government notices.