pretence
英 [prɪ'tens]
美 
	    - n. 假装;借口;虚伪
 
英英释意
- 1. a false or unsupportable quality
 
- 2. an artful or simulated semblance;
 - "under the guise of friendship he betrayed them"
 
- 3. pretending with intention to deceive
 
- 4. imaginative intellectual play
 
- 5. the act of giving a false appearance;
 - "his conformity was only pretending"