dissimulate
C2CEFR level
88/100Rarity: very rare
FormalRegister
General verb
To hide or disguise one's thoughts, feelings, or character.
A skilled spy must dissimulate even under intense questioning.
Medicine verb
To conceal one's true feelings, symptoms, or intentions behind a misleading appearance.
He tended to dissimulate his low mood behind a cheerful manner during ward rounds.
Rarity runs from 0 (a word everyone knows) to 100 (almost never seen outside specialist or literary writing). Level is the word's real difficulty on the CEFR scale, from A1 to C2.
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