DISSEMBLE (Verb)

Meaning- 1) to hide your true feeling, opinion, nature etc.

                        2) to make a false show of.

Mnemonic trick- The word dissemble contains word ‘ssemble’. ‘ssemble’ sounds similar to assemble. Director dissembled after ‘de-assembling’ the company. Therefore, dissemble means to hide your true feeling, opinion, nature etc. or to make a false show of.

Synonym- COUNTERFEIT, FEIGN, PRETEND, SHAM

Uses-

•          He accused the government of dissembling the facts about our economy.
•          Children learn to dissemble at a surprisingly early age.
•          Hayden’ s friend dissembled his real feeling regarding his wife’ s leaving him for another man.
•          He dissembled his feelings at the news that his old girlfriend was getting married to someone else.