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Feign:
- To give a false appearance of: feign sleep.
- To represent falsely; pretend to: feign authorship of a novel.
- To imitate so as to deceive: feign another's voice.
- To fabricate: feigned an excuse.
- Archaic. To invent or imagine.
- To pretend; dissemble.
- make believe with the intent to deceive; "He feigned that he was ill"; "He shammed a headache"
- make a pretence of; "She assumed indifference, even though she was seething with anger"; "he feigned sleep"
syn: sham, pretend, affect, dissemble,simulate, assume, sham
Awful:
- Extremely bad or unpleasant; terrible: had an awful day at the office.
- Commanding awe: “this sea, whose gently awful stirrings seem to speak of some hidden soul beneath” (Herman Melville).
- Filled with awe, especially:
- Filled with or displaying great reverence.
- Obsolete. Afraid.
- Formidable in nature or extent: an awful burden; an awful risk.
adv. Informal
- Extremely; very: was awful sick.
- syn: atrocious, abominable, dreadful, painful, terrible, unspeakable, dire, direful, dread(a), dreaded, dreadful, fearful, fearsome, frightening, horrendous, horrific, terrible, nasty,awed, amazing, awe-inspiring, awesome, awing,terribly, awfully, frightfully
ant: nice
Promulgate:
- To make known (a decree, for example) by public declaration; announce
officially.
- To put (a law) into effect by formal public announcement.
- 1 : to make known or public
2 : to put (as a regulation) into effect
- state or announce; "`I am not a Communist,' " he exclaimed; "The King will proclaim an amnesty"
- put a law into effect by formal declaration
syn: proclaim, exclaim, announce.
Havoc:
- Widespread destruction; devastation.
- Disorder or chaos: a wild party that created havoc in the house.
- To destroy or pillage.
- violent and needless disturbance
syn: mayhem
Jettison:
- To cast overboard or off: a ship jettisoning wastes; a pilot jettisoning
aircraft fuel.
- Informal. To discard (something) as unwanted or burdensome: jettisoned the whole marketing plan.
- The act of discarding or casting overboard.
- Jetsam.
- throw away, of something encumbering
- throw as from an airplane
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