Feigning and Devising

noun

• Pretending with intention to deceive.
  • synonyms: pretense, pretence, dissembling
• The act of giving a false appearance.
  • usage: "his conformity was only pretending"
  • synonyms: pretense, pretence, pretending, simulation

verb

• Make believe with the intent to deceive.
  • usage: "He feigned that he was ill"; "He shammed a headache"
  • synonyms: feign, sham, pretend, affect, dissemble
• Make a pretence of.
  • usage: "She assumed indifference, even though she was seething with anger"; "he feigned sleep"
  • synonyms: simulate, assume, sham, feign

• (a.) That feigns; insincere; not genuine; false.
• (p.pr.&vb.n.) of Feign.

noun

• The act that results in something coming to be.
  • usage: "the devising of plans"; "the fashioning of pots and pans"; "the making of measurements"; "it was already in the making"
  • synonyms: fashioning, making

verb

• Come up with (an idea, plan, explanation, theory, or principle) after a mental effort.
  • usage: "excogitate a way to measure the speed of light"
  • synonyms: invent, contrive, devise, excogitate, formulate, forge
• Arrange by systematic planning and united effort.
  • usage: "machinate a plot"; "organize a strike"; "devise a plan to take over the director's office"
  • synonyms: organize, organise, prepare, devise, get up, machinate
• Give by will, especially real property.
  • synonyms: devise