imposture (n.)

• acting
• affectation
• appearance
• artifice
• bluff
• bunco
• charlatanism
• cheat
• cheating
• color
• coloring
• copy
• copying
• counterfeit
• cozenage
• deceit
• deception
• delusion
• diddle
• disguise
• dishonesty
• dissembling
• dissimulation
• dodge
• emulation
• fabrication
• facade
• face
• fake
• fakery
• falsity
• feigning
• feint
• flam
• flimflam
• following
• forgery
• fraud
• fraudulence
• front
• gambit
• gilt
• gloss
• graft
• gyp
• hoax
• humbug
• imitation
• impersonation
• imposition
• impression
• make-believe
• maneuver
• masquerade
• meretriciousness
• mimesis
• onomatopoeia
• ostentation
• parody
• phony
• plagiarism
• playacting
• ploy
• pose
• posing
• posture
• pretense
• pretension
• pretext
• put-on
• quackery
• racket
• repetition
• representation
• ruse
• scam
• semblance
• sham
• show
• simulacrum
• simulation
• sleight
• speciousness
• spoof
• swindle
• takeoff
• varnish
• wile