The word 'masquerade' is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it as a verb meaning to disguise or conceal one's true nature or intentions, or to pretend to be someone or something else. You can also use it as a noun when referring to a social gathering where guests wear costumes and masks. Example: The masquerade ball was filled with elaborate costumes and masks, making it difficult to distinguish who was behind them.
Longevity will thus be assured, because you will be putting all of your energy into the music and not into the masquerade.
When he lost what little remained of his money at the gaming tables during a masquerade, he and apothecary William Plunket donned Venetian masks and held up a farmer on Hampstead Heath.
State media have called for the punishment of those responsible for having failed to delete them earlier.Some of the chaos is caused by websites that masquerade as government ones in order to steal personal information, promote property scams or even distribute pornography.
And three years ago Pakistan closed down Save the Children and booted out its foreign staff, saying that spies all too often masquerade as aid-workers.Hostility to NGOs is not new, nor is it unique to Asia.
Pakistan's claim that spies masquerade as aid-workers, for example, mostly reflects its own irregular behaviour.
Westerners, he says, exaggerate the figures as a pretext for invading a Muslim country; aid agencies masquerade as charities to enrich themselves.Not that Mr Bashir is minded to let independent outsiders see things for themselves.
Perhaps more challenging is the emergence of a new, non-affiliated pressure group that has denounced not just these elections, but the "entire masquerade" of Algeria's politics.Launched only last month, Barakat, meaning "enough" in Algeria's Arabic dialect, is modelled on peaceful civil movements that helped topple such rulers as Egypt's Hosni Mubarak.
And the Israelis no longer argued, as they did once, that a Palestinian suburb, such as Abu Dis, should masquerade as al-Quds.Both sides accepted in principle Mr Clinton's practical suggestion that there should be Palestinian sovereignty over Arab neighbourhoods and Israeli sovereignty over Jewish districts.
NO SOONER was the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA) signed than Kader Arif, the European Union's chief negotiator, called it a "masquerade" and resigned.
Many Web sites masquerade as harmless entertainment, but are actually lures to extract e-mail addresses from the naive.
And whereas his policy recommendations are certainly unworkable, he should be given credit for injecting a moralist dimension into economic debates that often masquerade as value-free, objective undertakings.One is reminded of the intellectual jousting between Ronald Dworkin and Antonin Scalia.
