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masquerade

2 verb
     
masquerade2 [intransitive]
to pretend to be something or someone different
masquerade as
A number of police officers masqueraded as demonstrators.
Some of these breakfast foods are just candy masquerading as cereals.
masquerade under
He was masquerading under a false name.
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