Assume
Assume verb - To present a false appearance of.
Usage example: she assumed an air of nonchalance even though she was wildly ecstatic she was going on the date
Bluff and assume are semantically related in action topic. In some cases you can use "Bluff" instead a verb "Assume", when it comes to topics like pretend.
Nearby Words: assumption, assuming
Common collocations
Both words in one sentence
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It gets a very large bonus to disguise and bluff to assume the identify of something it killed, as well as being good at the skills of its victim, but it can't use its foes' abilities though.
Source: Kill and Replace
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