posing

assuming characterization depiction dramatics dramatizing enacting enactment feigning hamming histrionics imitating imitation impersonation improvisation mime mimicry pantomime performance playing portrayal portraying posturing pretending pretense putting rendition seeming simulating stagecraft stooging theatre theatricals

play acting showing off

charade cloak pretext semblance veneer

act acting affectation appearance artifice claim deceit deception display dissimulation double-dealing evasion excuse fabrication facade fakery falsification feigning gag guise insincerity invention make believe mask masquerade misrepresentation misstatement ostentation posturing pretentiousness routine ruse schtick sham shuffling simulation stall stunt subterfuge trickery veil wile

dumb act faking

reality

frankness honesty honor openness quiet simplicity truth truthfulness uprightness