3. pretense, subterfuge, guise, feint, trick, artifice; ruse, pretext, excuse, expedient, plea.
4. false colors, imposture, pose, pretense,
Inf. front, dissimulation, faking, bluff, Inf. an act, deception, lie. -v. 5. go incognito, disguise oneself. See - mask (def. 9). masquerader, n. masker, domino, mummer, guiser; pretender, poseur, impostor, imitator; incognito, plainclothesman, Inf undercover cop; bluffer, flim-flammer, deceiver, liar, hypocrite, faker, Inf. fake,
mass, n. 1. pile, heap, stack, accumulation, bulk, drift, cumulus; hoard, store, stock, stockpile, supply; lump, deposit, swell, mound, tumulus; bank, hillock, hummock, hill, mountain; bale, bundle, cock, shock, rick, mow; load, barrow, cartload, wagonload, carload, cargo; cake, nugget, block, chunk, hunk; clot, coagulum, curd.
2. collection, amassment, assemblage, aggregation; concentration, agglomeration, conglomeration, cluster, congeries; assortment, variety, medley, miscellany, jumble, hodgepodge; clutter, Inf. mess.
3. abundance, bounty, volume, plenty; quantity, profusion, Inf. lots, Inf. raft, storm, shower, ocean, sea, world; hoard, store, considerable amount, deal, great deal; Inf. lots, peck, Inf. oodles, Inf. tons; SI. gobs, SI. scads, Inf. slews.
4. whole, totality, entirety, aggregate; total, sum, sum total, everything; concretion, gross amount, SI. whole bit, SI. whole schmear.
5. clump, tuft, tussock, thicket, grove, truss, Bot. raceme, Bot. panicle; bouquet, posy, bunch, batch; shock, sheaf; fagot, fascicle.
6. group, knot, band, company; body, congregation, assembly, gathering; crowd, number, mob, throng; bevy, covey, gaggle, flock, swarm, hive, school, pack, drove, herd; lot, parcel; multitude, galaxy, constellation; throng, array, legion, score.
7. majority, main body, greater part, almost all, lion's share, preponderance.
8. size, dimension, magnitude, capacity; bigness, massiveness, immensity; greatness, ampleness, bulkiness, hugeness, ponderosity.
9. the masses the common people, the working class, the lower class, huddled masses; the common man, the man in the street; peasants, proletariat, plebeians, the hoi polloi; rabble, Both Disparaging, the great unwashed, the undeserving poor.
-v. 10. assemble, accumulate, amass; group together, draw together, lump together; compile, collate, collocate, colligate, unite, join together; anthologize, collect, garner, glean, marshal; organize, order, codify, methodize, systematize.
11. convene, forgather, come together; meet, Inf. gang up, huddle, go into a huddle, get together, rendezvous.
12. group, cluster, concentrate, bunch up or together; crowd, congregate, agglomerate; flock together, throng, herd, swarm, surge; rally, muster, mobilize, levy; round up, round in.
massacre, n. 1. carnage, slaughter, butchery; wholesale slaughter, random or indiscriminate slaughter, general slaughter, wholesale killing, mass murder, mass homicide, mass slaying, mass execution, mass destruction; blood bath, effusion of blood, fusillade of blood, noyade, Rare, internecion, Rare, truci-dation; decimation, annihilation, extermination, liquidation, pogrom, genocide.
-v. 2. decimate, destroy a great number, kill off; annihilate, exterminate, eliminate, liquidate, obliterate, eradicate, Brit. Mil. SI. scupper; erase, blot out; butcher, slaughter, cut to pieces, maul, savage, hew, hack, hack to pieces, chop, chop to pieces, mow down, mutilate, tear limb from limb, dismember, disembowel; wade in blood, give no quarter, show no mercy, run amuck, go berserk; kill, murder, slay, cut down, do to death, execute, put to death, put to the sword, destroy, shed or spill blood, assassinate.
