0 (a) pretence or disguise -- trò giả dối
Her show of friendship was (a) masquerade.
1 (with as) to pretend to be, usually intending to deceive -- giả mạo
The criminal was masquerading as a respectable businessman.
Could it perhaps be an office brochure masquerading as a monograph?
One possibility is that empathy is not a single topic; it is simply an umbrella term masquerading as a discrete topic.
Humans masquerading as personified animals or birds figured prominently in this new circus work performing across species, along with some strikingly innovative technology.
Others see law's ability to construct authority out of thin air as a trait to be admired rather than a dangerous masquerade.
Social categories that masquerade as aesthetic facts simply reinscribe essentialist notions of music that precede analysis.
It might be alleged that these figures were modern whigs masquerading behind the name ' old whig ' but such a view seems unconvincing for three reasons.
It may well be that subtle differences in the social worlds of identical twins in comparison to fraternal twins are still masquerading as genetic influence.
However, when a piece of theoretical work is dismissed as 'highly personal', it seems that an essentially conceptual problem masquerades as a mere terminological dispute.
