Hiding your true feelings by pretending you feel exactly the
opposite is called dissimulation. Dissimulation is a noun that describes the
character of faking the actual feelings of a person. It is way of deceiving
someone about the actual feelings the person is going through. In another way
it can be the act of pulling wool over someone’s eyes to trick that person.
This word can be used in a wide variety of ways to project a person. This word
is often used to describe deceit.
NASA lost its $125-million Mars Climate Orbiter because spacecraft engineers failed to convert from English to metric measurements when exchanging vital data before the craft was launched, space agency officials said Thursday.
A navigation team at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory used the metric system of millimeters and meters in its calculations, while Lockheed Martin Astronautics in Denver, which designed and built the spacecraft, provided crucial acceleration data in the English system of inches, feet and pounds.
1. The teacher had to constrain the class.
2. The war was contemporary.
3. They had to depict for the class presentation.
4. He was disintetrested in the event.
5. They had to encompass their favourite subjects in a mood board.
6. The thing he did was completely groundless.
7. She was a hypocrite, always pretending to like people she hang out with.
8. She found the things in the maths class completely incompressible.
9. She managed to manipulate him into doing something with her lies.
10. He had a lot of stamina so he was always ready for anything in a p.e. lesson.
I guess it means elephants are smart