Profess
Part of speech: verb
Definition: To make open declaration of, as of one's knowledge, belief, action, etc.; to avow or acknowledge; to confess publicly; to own or admit freely. To set up a claim to; to make presence to; hence, to put on or present an appearance of. To present to knowledge of, to proclaim one's self versed in; to make one's self a teacher or practitioner of, to set up as an authority respecting; to declare (one's self to be such); as, he professes surgery; to profess one's self a physician. To take a profession upon one's self by a public declaration; to confess. To declare friendship.
Example sentence: If a man loves you... he's willing to profess it. He'll give you a title after a while. You're going to be his lady, his woman, his fiancee, his wife, his baby's mama, something.
Pretend
Part of speech: verb
Definition: to claim that or act as if something is different from what it actually is, often incorrectly and knowingly
Example sentence: People discuss my art and pretend to understand as if it were necessary to understand, when it's simply necessary to love.