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v. make a copy of with the intent to deceive; "he faked the signature"; "they counterfeited dollar bills"; "She forged a Green Card"

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counterfeit, imitative

adj. not genuine; imitating something superior; "counterfeit emotion"; "counterfeit money"; "counterfeit works of art"; "a counterfeit prince"

dissemble, pretend, act

v. behave unnaturally or affectedly; "She's just acting"

perform

v. give a performance (of something); "Horowitz is performing at Carnegie Hall tonight"; "We performed a popular Gilbert and Sullivan opera"

fudge, manipulate, fake, falsify, cook, wangle, misrepresent

v. tamper, with the purpose of deception; "Fudge the figures"; "cook the books"; "falsify the data"

plagiarize, plagiarise, lift

v. take without referencing from someone else's writing or speech; of intellectual property

manufacture

v. produce naturally; "this gland manufactures a specific substance only"

fashion, forge

v. make out of components (often in an improvising manner); "She fashioned a tent out of a sheet and a few sticks"

falsify, distort, garble, warp

v. make false by mutilation or addition; as of a message or story

reenact

v. enact or perform again; "They reenacted the battle of Princeton"

imitate

v. make a reproduction or copy of

sophisticate, doctor, doctor up

v. alter and make impure, as with the intention to deceive; "Sophisticate rose water with geraniol"

abuse

v. use wrongly or improperly or excessively; "Her husband often abuses alcohol"; "while she was pregnant, she abused drugs"

disguise, mask

v. make unrecognizable; "The herb masks the garlic taste"; "We disguised our faces before robbing the bank"

camouflage

v. disguise by camouflaging; exploit the natural surroundings to disguise something; "The troops camouflaged themselves before they went into enemy territory"

misrepresent, belie

v. represent falsely; "This statement misrepresents my intentions"

pirate

v. copy illegally; of published material

hijack

v. seize control of; "they hijacked the judicial process"

loot, plunder

v. take illegally; of intellectual property; "This writer plundered from famous authors"

plunder, despoil, loot, reave, strip, rifle, ransack, pillage, foray

v. steal goods; take as spoils; "During the earthquake people looted the stores that were deserted by their owners"

reproduce

v. make a copy or equivalent of; "reproduce the painting"

raise, erect, rear, set up, put up

v. construct, build, or erect; "Raise a barn"

retroflex, replicate

v. bend or turn backward

imitate

v. appear like, as in behavior or appearance; "Life imitate art"

improvise, extemporize

v. manage in a makeshift way; do with whatever is at hand; "after the hurricane destroyed our house, we had to improvise for weeks"

make, pretend, make believe

v. represent fictitiously, as in a play, or pretend to be or act like; "She makes like an actress"

appear

v. appear as a character on stage or appear in a play, etc.; "Gielgud appears briefly in this movie"; "She appeared in `Hamlet' on the London stage"

appear, come along

v. come into being or existence, or appear on the scene; "Then the computer came along and changed our lives"; "Homo sapiens appeared millions of years ago"

seem

v. appear to one's own mind or opinion; "I seem to be misunderstood by everyone"; "I can't seem to learn these Chinese characters"

ersatz, substitute

adj. artificial and inferior; "ersatz coffee"; "substitute coffee"

false

adj. deliberately deceptive; "false pretenses"

unfaithful

adj. having sexual relations with someone other than your husband or wife, or your boyfriend or girlfriend; "her husband was unfaithful"

perfidious, treacherous

adj. tending to betray; especially having a treacherous character as attributed to the Carthaginians by the Romans; "Punic faith"; "the perfidious Judas"; "the fiercest and most treacherous of foes"; "treacherous intrigues"

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genuine, echt

adj. not fake or counterfeit; "a genuine Picasso"; "genuine leather"

authentic, bona fide, unquestionable, veritable

adj. not counterfeit or copied; "an authentic signature"; "a bona fide manuscript"; "an unquestionable antique"; "photographs taken in a veritable bull ring"

real, existent

adj. being or occurring in fact or actuality; having verified existence; not illusory; "real objects"; "real people; not ghosts"; "a film based on real life"; "a real illness"; "real humility"; "Life is real! Life is earnest!"- Longfellow

true, real

adj. not spurious: "real mink"; "true gold"

good, honest

adj. not forged; "a good dollar bill"

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