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   dissemble

   /dɪˈsɛmbl/

   verb

   • 1. conceal or disguise one's true feelings or beliefs: "an honest, sincere person with no need to dissemble"
   • ▪ disguise or conceal (a feeling or intention): "she smiled, dissembling her true emotion"

   Word Origin late Middle English: alteration (suggested by semblance) of obsolete dissimule, via Old French from Latin dissimulare ‘disguise, conceal’.

   Derivatives

   • 1. dissemblance noun
   • 2. dissembler noun

   Scrabble Points: 14

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