feign

(v) - If you feign a particular feeling (illness, sleep, etc), you pretend to have it.

• Synonyms: pretend, fake, imagine, put on, play
• Antonyms: be true
• Etymology: 1300s Latin, from fingere meaning "to touch, handle; devise; fabricate, alter, change" (which is also where we get the word fiction)
• Morphology: feigned - v, adj
• Example: I am so thankful that no one in my class would feign an illness to get out of coming to school!