pretense vs misrepresentation

pretense and misrepresentation both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
pretense	Yes	No	No	No
misrepresentation	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, misrepresentation is a hypernym of pretense; that is, misrepresentation is a word with a broader meaning than pretense:

Other hypernyms of pretense include deceit, deception.

pretense (noun)	misrepresentation (noun)
the act of giving a false appearance	a willful perversion of facts
a false or unsupportable quality	a misleading falsehood
an artful or simulated semblance
imaginative intellectual play
pretending with intention to deceive