Answer | Crossword Clue |
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FEIGN | Pretend to have, as an illness |
malingered | to pretend or exaggerate incapacity or illness (as to avoid duty or work) |
faking | Pretend to feel or suffer from (an emotion or illness) |
simulates | Pretend to have or feel (an emotion) |
simulating | Pretend to have or feel (an emotion) |
tarantism | A psychological illness characterized by an extreme impulse to dance, prevalent in southern Italy from the 15th to the 17th century, and widely believed at the time to have been caused by the bite of a tarantula |