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Words with the same meaning
- Prospero
- acting
- affectation
- affectedness
- airiness
- airs
- airs and graces
- appearance
- artificiality
- attitudinizing
- bluff
- bluffing
- cheating
- color
- coloring
- deception
- delusion
- delusiveness
- disguise
- dissemblance
- dissembling
- dissimulation
- facade
- face
- fakery
- faking
- fallaciousness
- false air
- false appearance
- false front
- false light
- falseness
- falsity
- feigned belief
- feigning
- feint
- four-flushing
- fraud
- front
- gilt
- gloss
- humbug
- humbuggery
- hypocrisy
- idealization
- illusionism
- illusionist
- illusiveness
- image
- immateriality
- imposture
- insincerity
- magic
- magic act
- magic show
- magician
- mannerism
- masquerade
- mere show
- meretriciousness
- ostentation
- outward show
- playacting
- pose
- posing
- posture
- prestidigitation
- pretense
- pretension
- pretext
- prunes and prisms
- public image
- put-on
- putting on airs
- representation
- seeming
- semblance
- sham
- show
- simulacrum
- simulation
- sleight of hand
- sorcerer
- sorcery
- specious appearance
- speciousness
- stylishness
- unactuality
- unnaturalness
- unreality
- unsubstantiality
- varnish
- window dressing
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