Here is a context clues worksheet on the verb feign, which is used both intransitively and transitively. Intransitively, it means “pretend” and “dissemble.” Transitively, and it is this definition toward which the context clues in this document point, it means “to give a false appearance of,” “induce as a false impression,” “to assert as if true,” and, again, “pretend.”
I would think this is a word students ought to know before they graduate high school. But what do you think?
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