feign — a verb meaning that you put on a appearance or pretend something as in feigning surprise when you aren’t actually surprised
fingir — the Spanish cognate and verb with the same meaning
Here is another cognate duo in which the Spanish version is used much more often than the English one, or at least it is better known than our English word. When the…
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