This week we continue our vocabulary-building series, “The Closing Word.” Each week we provide a new word to help build your vocabulary and show you an example of how to use it.
This week’s closing word:
Pronounced: (FAIN)
Verb:
1. make believe with the intent to deceive
2. make a pretense of
From Vocabulary.com: “Feign comes from the Latin fingere “to devise, fabricate.” The word fiction comes from the same source, so if you feign something such as sleep, you give off the fiction that you are sleeping.”
Example:
“Sometimes neighbors feign they are buyers so they can snoop around a local home during an open house.”
