Related Words:
- simulation
collapse - the act of imitating the behavior of some situation or some process by means of something suitably analogous (especially for the purpose of study or personnel training)
- (computer science) the technique of representing the real world by a computer program; "a simulation should imitate the internal processes and not merely the results of the thing being simulated" related words >
- accordance,
- acting,
- adoption,
- affectation,
- agreement,
- alikeness,
- alliance,
- analogy,
- aping,
- appearance,
- approach,
- appropriation,
- approximation,
- assimilation,
- assumption,
- attitudinizing,
- bluff,
- bluffing,
- borrowed plumes,
- cheating,
- closeness,
- color,
- coloring,
- community,
- comparability,
- comparison,
- conformity,
- copying,
- correspondence,
- counterfeiting,
- deception,
- delusion,
- derivation,
- deriving,
- disguise,
- dissemblance,
- dissembling,
- dissimulation,
- emulation,
- facade,
- face,
- fakery,
- faking,
- false air,
- false front,
- false show,
- falsity,
- feigning,
- feint,
- following,
- forgery,
- four-flushing,
- fraud,
- front,
- gilt,
- gloss,
- hit-off,
- humbug,
- humbuggery,
- identity,
- imitation,
- impersonation,
- imposture,
- impression,
- infringement,
- likeness,
- likening,
- masquerade,
- meretriciousness,
- metaphor,
- mimesis,
- mimicking,
- mirroring,
- mocking,
- nearness,
- onomatopoeia,
- ostentation,
- outward show,
- parallelism,
- parity,
- parody,
- pasticcio,
- pastiche,
- pirating,
- plagiarism,
- plagiary,
- playacting,
- pose,
- posing,
- posture,
- pretense,
- pretension,
- pretext,
- repetition,
- representation,
- resemblance,
- sameness,
- seeming,
- semblance,
- sham,
- show,
- similarity,
- simile,
- similitude,
- simulacrum,
- speciousness,
- takeoff,
- taking,
- varnish,
- window dressing
- eclat
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- brilliant or conspicuous success or effect; "the eclat of a great achievement" related words >
- PR,
- acclaim,
- acclamation,
- applause,
- ballyhoo,
- bang,
- big hand,
- blazon,
- blurb,
- bravura,
- bright light,
- brilliance,
- brilliancy,
- burst of applause,
- celebrity,
- character,
- cheer,
- clap,
- clapping,
- clapping of hands,
- common knowledge,
- cry,
- currency,
- daring,
- dash,
- daylight,
- demonstration,
- display,
- distinction,
- dramatics,
- encore,
- etalage,
- exhibition,
- exhibitionism,
- exposure,
- false front,
- fame,
- famousness,
- fanfaronade,
- figure,
- flair,
- flaunt,
- flaunting,
- flourish,
- glare,
- glory,
- hand,
- handclap,
- handclapping,
- histrionics,
- hoopla,
- hue and cry,
- kudos,
- limelight,
- luster,
- manifestation,
- maximum dissemination,
- name,
- notoriety,
- notoriousness,
- ovation,
- pageant,
- pageantry,
- parade,
- plaudit,
- plug,
- popularity,
- press notice,
- prominence,
- public eye,
- public knowledge,
- public relations,
- public report,
- publicity,
- publicity story,
- publicness,
- puff,
- reclame,
- recognition,
- remarkableness,
- renown,
- report,
- reputation,
- repute,
- round of applause,
- sham,
- show,
- showing-off,
- spectacle,
- splash,
- splurge,
- spotlight,
- staginess,
- standing,
- the bubble reputation,
- theatrics,
- thunder of applause,
- vaunt,
- vogue,
- write-up
- protestation
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- a strong declaration of protest related words >
- affirmance,
- affirmation,
- alibi,
- allegation,
- announcement,
- annunciation,
- apology,
- assertion,
- asseveration,
- averment,
- avouchment,
- avowal,
- beef,
- bitch,
- blind,
- boycott,
- challenge,
- cloak,
- color,
- complaint,
- compunction,
- conclusion,
- cover,
- cover story,
- cover-up,
- creed,
- declaration,
- demonstration,
- demur,
- demurrer,
- device,
- dictum,
- enunciation,
- exception,
- excuse,
- expostulation,
- facade,
- feint,
- front,
- gloss,
- grievance,
- grievance committee,
- guise,
- handle,
- howl,
- indignation meeting,
- ipse dixit,
- kick,
- lame excuse,
- locus standi,
- manifesto,
- march,
- mask,
- nonviolent protest,
- objection,
- ostensible motive,
- picketing,
- poor excuse,
- position,
- position paper,
- positive declaration,
- predicate,
- predication,
- pretense,
- pretension,
- pretext,
- proclamation,
- profession,
- pronouncement,
- proposition,
- protest,
- protest demonstration,
- public motive,
- put-off,
- qualm,
- rally,
- refuge,
- remonstrance,
- remonstration,
- say,
- say-so,
- saying,
- screen,
- scruple,
- semblance,
- sham,
- show,
- sit-in,
- smoke screen,
- squawk,
- stalking-horse,
- stance,
- stand,
- statement,
- stratagem,
- strike,
- subterfuge,
- teach-in,
- trick,
- utterance,
- varnish,
- veil,
- vouch,
- word
- poser
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- a particularly difficult or baffling question or problem related words >
- Chinese puzzle,
- Gordian knot,
- Holy Willie,
- Joseph Surface,
- Mawworm,
- Pecksniff,
- Pharisee,
- Tartuffe,
- affecter,
- attitudinarian,
- attitudinizer,
- baffling problem,
- blagueur,
- bluff,
- bluffer,
- brain twister,
- canter,
- canting hypocrite,
- charlatan,
- crossword puzzle,
- crux,
- dilemma,
- dissembler,
- dissimulator,
- enigma,
- enigmatic question,
- fake,
- faker,
- floorer,
- formalist,
- fourflusher,
- fraud,
- humbug,
- hypocrite,
- impersonator,
- impostor,
- jigsaw puzzle,
- knot,
- knotty point,
- lip server,
- lip worshiper,
- malingerer,
- mind-boggler,
- mountebank,
- mystery,
- node,
- nodus,
- nonplus,
- nut to crack,
- oxymoron,
- paradox,
- perplexed question,
- perplexity,
- pharisee,
- phony,
- pietist,
- pious fraud,
- pons asinorum,
- poseur,
- posture maker,
- posturer,
- posturist,
- pretender,
- problem,
- puzzle,
- puzzlement,
- puzzler,
- quack,
- quacksalver,
- quackster,
- quandary,
- question,
- question mark,
- ranter,
- religionist,
- religious hypocrite,
- ringer,
- saltimbanco,
- sham,
- shammer,
- sixty-four dollar question,
- sniveler,
- snuffler,
- spiritual humbug,
- sticker,
- striker of poses,
- stumper,
- teaser,
- tough proposition,
- vexed question,
- whited sepulcher,
- why
- illegitimate
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- contrary to or forbidden by law; "an illegitimate seizure of power"; "illicit trade"; "an outlaw strike"; "unlawful measures"
- of marriages and offspring; not recognized as lawful related words >
- actionable,
- affected,
- against the law,
- anarchic,
- anarchistic,
- anomic,
- apocryphal,
- artificial,
- assumed,
- bantling,
- bar sinister,
- baseborn,
- bastard,
- bastard child,
- bastardy,
- black-market,
- bogus,
- bootleg,
- brummagem,
- by-blow,
- chargeable,
- colorable,
- colored,
- contraband,
- contrary to law,
- counterfeit,
- counterfeited,
- criminal,
- distorted,
- dressed up,
- dummy,
- embellished,
- embroidered,
- ersatz,
- factitious,
- fake,
- faked,
- false,
- falsified,
- fatherless,
- feigned,
- felonious,
- fictitious,
- fictive,
- flawed,
- garbled,
- illegal,
- illegitimacy,
- illegitimate child,
- illicit,
- imitation,
- impermissible,
- improper,
- incorrect,
- invalid,
- irregular,
- junky,
- justiciable,
- lawless,
- love child,
- make-believe,
- man-made,
- misbegotten,
- miscreated,
- mock,
- natural,
- nonconstitutional,
- nonlegal,
- nonlicit,
- outlaw,
- outlawed,
- perverted,
- phony,
- pinchbeck,
- pretended,
- pseudo,
- punishable,
- put-on,
- quasi,
- queer,
- self-styled,
- sham,
- shoddy,
- simulated,
- so-called,
- soi-disant,
- spurious,
- supposititious,
- synthetic,
- tin,
- tinsel,
- titivated,
- triable,
- twisted,
- unallowed,
- unauthentic,
- unauthorized,
- unconstitutional,
- under-the-counter,
- under-the-table,
- ungenuine,
- unlawful,
- unnatural,
- unofficial,
- unreal,
- unstatutory,
- unwarrantable,
- unwarranted,
- warped,
- wrongful
- tin
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- a silvery malleable metallic element that resists corrosion; used in many alloys and to coat other metals to prevent corrosion; obtained chiefly from cassiterite where it occurs as tin oxide
- prepare (a metal) for soldering or brazing by applying a thin layer of solder to the surface
- plate with tin related words >
- affected,
- apocryphal,
- artificial,
- assumed,
- aureate,
- bag,
- barrel,
- basket,
- bastard,
- bogus,
- bottle,
- box,
- box up,
- brass,
- brassy,
- brazen,
- bronze,
- bronzy,
- brummagem,
- can,
- capsule,
- carton,
- case,
- cask,
- colorable,
- colored,
- copper,
- coppery,
- counterfeit,
- counterfeited,
- crate,
- cupreous,
- cuprous,
- distorted,
- do up,
- dressed up,
- dummy,
- embellished,
- embroidered,
- encase,
- encyst,
- ersatz,
- factitious,
- fake,
- faked,
- falsified,
- feigned,
- ferrous,
- ferruginous,
- fictitious,
- fictive,
- garbled,
- gilt,
- gold,
- gold-filled,
- gold-plated,
- golden,
- hamper,
- illegitimate,
- imitation,
- iron,
- ironlike,
- jar,
- junky,
- lead,
- leaden,
- make-believe,
- man-made,
- mercurial,
- mercurous,
- mock,
- nickel,
- nickelic,
- nickeline,
- pack,
- package,
- parcel,
- perverted,
- pewter,
- pewtery,
- phony,
- pinchbeck,
- pot,
- pretended,
- pseudo,
- put up,
- put-on,
- quasi,
- queer,
- quicksilver,
- sack,
- self-styled,
- sham,
- shoddy,
- silver,
- silver-plated,
- silvery,
- simulated,
- so-called,
- soi-disant,
- spurious,
- steel,
- steely,
- supposititious,
- synthetic,
- tank,
- tinny,
- tinsel,
- titivated,
- twisted,
- unauthentic,
- ungenuine,
- unnatural,
- unreal,
- warped
- apocryphal
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- being of questionable authenticity
- of or belonging to the Apocrypha related words >
- Albigensian,
- Arian,
- Catharist,
- Donatist,
- Ebionitist,
- Erastian,
- Gnostic,
- Jansenist,
- Jansenistic,
- Jovinianist,
- Jovinianistic,
- Lollard,
- Manichaean,
- Monophysite,
- Monophysitic,
- Montanist,
- Montanistic,
- Pelagian,
- Sabellian,
- Waldensian,
- Wyclifite,
- affected,
- antinomian,
- artificial,
- assumed,
- bastard,
- bogus,
- brummagem,
- colorable,
- colored,
- counterfeit,
- counterfeited,
- distorted,
- doubtful,
- dressed up,
- dubious,
- dummy,
- emanationist,
- embellished,
- embroidered,
- erroneous,
- ersatz,
- factitious,
- fake,
- faked,
- fallacious,
- false,
- falsified,
- feigned,
- fictitious,
- fictive,
- garbled,
- heretical,
- heterodox,
- hylotheist,
- hylotheistic,
- illegitimate,
- imitation,
- inaccurate,
- incorrect,
- junky,
- make-believe,
- man-made,
- mock,
- nonofficial,
- nonorthodox,
- open to question,
- pantheist,
- pantheistic,
- perverted,
- phony,
- pinchbeck,
- pretended,
- pseudo,
- put-on,
- quasi,
- queer,
- questionable,
- self-styled,
- sham,
- shoddy,
- simulated,
- so-called,
- soi-disant,
- spurious,
- supposititious,
- synthetic,
- tin,
- tinsel,
- titivated,
- twisted,
- unaccepted,
- unapproved,
- unattested,
- unauthentic,
- unauthenticated,
- unauthoritative,
- uncanonical,
- uncertified,
- unchecked,
- unconfirmed,
- uncorroborated,
- undemonstrated,
- ungenuine,
- unnatural,
- unofficial,
- unorthodox,
- unproved,
- unreal,
- unscriptural,
- unsound,
- untrue,
- unvalidated,
- unverified,
- unwarranted,
- warped,
- wrong
- window dressing
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- the decoration of shop windows related words >
- acting,
- adjunct,
- adornment,
- affectation,
- anteriority,
- appearance,
- arrangement,
- attitudinizing,
- bluff,
- bluffing,
- bold front,
- brave face,
- brave front,
- cheating,
- color,
- color patterns,
- coloring,
- deception,
- decor,
- decoration,
- delusion,
- disguise,
- display,
- dissemblance,
- dissembling,
- dissimulation,
- elaboration,
- embellishment,
- emblazonment,
- emblazonry,
- embroidery,
- facade,
- face,
- facet,
- facia,
- fakery,
- faking,
- false air,
- false front,
- false show,
- falsity,
- feigning,
- feint,
- flourish,
- flower arrangement,
- fore,
- forefront,
- foreground,
- forehand,
- foreland,
- forepart,
- forequarter,
- foreside,
- foreword,
- four-flushing,
- fraud,
- front,
- front elevation,
- front man,
- front matter,
- front page,
- front view,
- frontage,
- frontal,
- frontier,
- frontispiece,
- furniture arrangement,
- garnish,
- garnishment,
- garniture,
- gilt,
- gloss,
- head,
- heading,
- humbug,
- humbuggery,
- illumination,
- imposture,
- lap,
- masquerade,
- meretriciousness,
- obverse,
- ornament,
- ornamentation,
- ostentation,
- outward show,
- playacting,
- pose,
- posing,
- posture,
- preface,
- prefix,
- pretense,
- pretension,
- pretext,
- priority,
- proscenium,
- put-on,
- representation,
- seeming,
- semblance,
- sham,
- show,
- simulacrum,
- simulation,
- speciousness,
- trim,
- trimming,
- varnish,
- veneer
- speciousness
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- an appearance of truth that is false or deceptive; seeming plausibility; "the speciousness of his argument" related words >
- acting,
- affectation,
- apparent character,
- apparent soundness,
- appearance,
- appearances,
- attitudinizing,
- bluff,
- bluffing,
- casuistry,
- cheating,
- circularity,
- color,
- coloring,
- deception,
- deceptiveness,
- delusion,
- disguise,
- disingenuousness,
- display,
- dissemblance,
- dissembling,
- dissimulation,
- distortion,
- equivocalness,
- equivocation,
- evasive reasoning,
- exteriors,
- external appearance,
- externals,
- facade,
- face,
- fakery,
- faking,
- fallaciousness,
- fallacy,
- false air,
- false front,
- false show,
- falsity,
- feigning,
- feint,
- four-flushing,
- fraud,
- front,
- gaudiness,
- gilt,
- gloss,
- humbug,
- humbuggery,
- imposture,
- insincerity,
- jesuitism,
- jesuitry,
- masquerade,
- mere externals,
- meretriciousness,
- misapplication,
- mystification,
- obfuscation,
- obscurantism,
- ostent,
- ostentation,
- outward appearance,
- outward show,
- oversubtlety,
- perversion,
- philosophism,
- plausibility,
- plausibleness,
- playacting,
- pose,
- posing,
- posture,
- pretense,
- pretension,
- pretext,
- public image,
- rationalization,
- representation,
- seeming,
- semblance,
- sham,
- show,
- simulacrum,
- simulation,
- sophism,
- sophistical reasoning,
- sophistication,
- sophistry,
- special pleading,
- speciosity,
- specious reasoning,
- spuriousness,
- subtlety,
- superficiality,
- surface appearance,
- surface show,
- vain show,
- varnish,
- vicious circle,
- vicious reasoning,
- window dressing
- act,
- act a part,
- affect,
- alibi,
- apology,
- apply to,
- assume,
- be the goat,
- becloud,
- befog,
- blanket,
- blind,
- block,
- bluff,
- camouflage,
- canopy,
- cloak,
- clothe,
- cloud,
- color,
- conceal,
- cope,
- counterfeit,
- cover,
- cover story,
- cowl,
- curtain,
- device,
- disguise,
- dissemble,
- dissimulate,
- distract attention from,
- eclipse,
- ensconce,
- enshroud,
- envelop,
- excuse,
- facade,
- fake,
- feign,
- feint,
- film,
- four-flush,
- front,
- front for,
- gammon,
- gloss,
- gloss over,
- guise,
- handle,
- hide,
- hood,
- keep under cover,
- lame excuse,
- lay on,
- lay over,
- let on,
- let on like,
- locus standi,
- make a pretense,
- make as if,
- make believe,
- make like,
- mantle,
- mask,
- muffle,
- obduce,
- obfuscate,
- obscure,
- occult,
- ostensible motive,
- overlay,
- overspread,
- play,
- play a part,
- play possum,
- playact,
- poor excuse,
- pretend,
- pretense,
- pretension,
- pretext,
- profess,
- protestation,
- public motive,
- put on,
- put-off,
- refuge,
- screen,
- scum,
- semblance,
- shade,
- sham,
- shield,
- show,
- shroud,
- simulate,
- slur over,
- smoke screen,
- spread over,
- stalking-horse,
- stratagem,
- subterfuge,
- superimpose,
- superpose,
- trick,
- varnish,
- veil,
- whitewash
- imposture
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- pretending to be another person related words >
- acting,
- affectation,
- appearance,
- artifice,
- attitudinizing,
- ballot-box stuffing,
- bluff,
- bluffing,
- bunco,
- cardsharping,
- charlatanism,
- charlatanry,
- cheat,
- cheating,
- color,
- coloring,
- copy,
- copying,
- counterfeit,
- counterfeiting,
- cozenage,
- deceit,
- deception,
- delusion,
- diddle,
- diddling,
- disguise,
- dishonesty,
- dissemblance,
- dissembling,
- dissimulation,
- dodge,
- emulation,
- fabrication,
- facade,
- face,
- fake,
- fakery,
- faking,
- false air,
- false front,
- false show,
- falsity,
- feigning,
- feint,
- fishy transaction,
- flam,
- flimflam,
- following,
- forgery,
- four-flushing,
- fraud,
- fraudulence,
- fraudulency,
- front,
- gambit,
- gerrymandering,
- gilt,
- gloss,
- graft,
- grift,
- gyp,
- gyp joint,
- hit-off,
- hoax,
- humbug,
- humbuggery,
- illicit business,
- imitation,
- impersonation,
- imposition,
- impression,
- make-believe,
- maneuver,
- masquerade,
- meretriciousness,
- mimesis,
- mirroring,
- onomatopoeia,
- ostentation,
- outward show,
- parody,
- phony,
- plagiarism,
- plagiary,
- playacting,
- ploy,
- pose,
- posing,
- posture,
- pretense,
- pretension,
- pretext,
- put-on,
- quackery,
- quackishness,
- quackism,
- racket,
- repetition,
- representation,
- ruse,
- scam,
- seeming,
- semblance,
- sham,
- show,
- simulacrum,
- simulation,
- sleight,
- speciousness,
- spoof,
- swindle,
- takeoff,
- varnish,
- wile,
- window dressing
- refuge
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- a shelter from danger or hardship related words >
- alibi,
- apology,
- asylum,
- blind,
- bolt-hole,
- cache,
- citadel,
- cloak,
- color,
- concealment,
- corner,
- cover,
- cover story,
- cover-up,
- covert,
- coverture,
- cranny,
- cubby,
- cubbyhole,
- dark corner,
- defense,
- den,
- dernier ressort,
- device,
- dodge,
- dugout,
- evasion,
- excuse,
- expediency,
- expedient,
- eye,
- facade,
- feint,
- foxhole,
- front,
- funk hole,
- gloss,
- guard,
- guise,
- handle,
- harbor,
- harborage,
- haven,
- hideaway,
- hideout,
- hidey hole,
- hiding,
- hiding place,
- hole,
- immunity,
- lair,
- lame excuse,
- lee,
- locus standi,
- makeshift,
- mask,
- niche,
- nook,
- ostensible motive,
- poor excuse,
- port,
- preservation,
- pretense,
- pretension,
- pretext,
- protection,
- protective custody,
- protestation,
- public motive,
- put-off,
- receipt,
- receiving,
- reception,
- recess,
- recourse,
- resort,
- retreat,
- ruse,
- safekeeping,
- safety,
- sanctuary,
- screen,
- secret place,
- security,
- semblance,
- shade,
- shadow,
- sham,
- shelter,
- shield,
- shift,
- show,
- smoke screen,
- stalking-horse,
- stash,
- stopgap,
- stratagem,
- stronghold,
- substitute,
- subterfuge,
- taking in,
- trick,
- undercovert,
- varnish,
- veil,
- watchful eye,
- welcome,
- welcoming
- alibi,
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