adj. 25B6; verb
they just pretend to listen : MAKE AS IF, profess, affect; dissimulate, dissemble, put it on, put on a false front, go through the motions, sham, fake it.
I'll pretend to be the dragon : PUT ON AN ACT, make believe, play at, act, play-act, impersonate.
it was useless to pretend innocence : FEIGN, sham, fake, simulate, put on, counterfeit, affect.
he cannot pretend to sophistication : CLAIM, lay claim to, purport to have, profess to have.
25B6; adjective (informal) a pretend conversation : IMAGINARY, imagined, pretended, make-believe, made-up, fantasy, fantasized, dreamed-up, unreal, invented, fictitious, mythical, feigned, fake, mock, sham, simulated, artificial, ersatz, false, pseudo; informal phoney.