Today's Word "dissimulate"
Published in Vocabulary
dissimulate \dih-SIM-yuh-layt\ (transitive verb) - To conceal under a false appearance.
"Judith's chronic sadness was dissimulated from the world by her happy smile and cheerful disposition."
Dissimulate comes from Latin dissimulare, "to conceal, to pretend that things are not as they are," from dis- + simulare, "to make like, to copy," from similis, "like." The noun form is dissimulation.
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