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Mock

To imitate; to mimic; esp., to mimic in sport, contempt, or derision; to deride by mimicry.

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Similar meaning 4

Counterfeit 84% connected

Representing by imitation or likeness; having a resemblance to something else; portrayed.

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Counterfeit 84% connected

Representing by imitation or likeness; having a resemblance to something else; portrayed.

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Imitative 84% connected

Inclined to imitate, copy, or follow; imitating; exhibiting some of the qualities or characteristics of a pattern or model; dependent on example; not…

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Imitative 84% connected

Inclined to imitate, copy, or follow; imitating; exhibiting some of the qualities or characteristics of a pattern or model; dependent on example; not…

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Manner of action 20

Ape 76% connected

A quadrumanous mammal, esp. of the family Simiadae, having teeth of the same number and form as in man, and possessing neither a tail nor cheek pouch…

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Bait 76% connected

Any substance, esp. food, used in catching fish, or other animals, by alluring them to a hook, snare, inclosure, or net.

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Blackguard 76% connected

The scullions and lower menials of a court, or of a nobleman's household, who, in a removal from one residence to another, had charge of the kitchen…

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Burlesque 76% connected

Tending to excite laughter or contempt by extravagant images, or by a contrast between the subject and the manner of treating it, as when a trifling…

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Caricature 76% connected

An exaggeration, or distortion by exaggeration, of parts or characteristics, as in a picture.

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Cod 76% connected

A husk; a pod; as, a peascod.

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Deride 76% connected

To laugh at with contempt; to laugh to scorn; to turn to ridicule or make sport of; to mock; to scoff at.

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Guy 76% connected

A rope, chain, or rod attached to anything to steady it; as: a rope to steady or guide an object which is being hoisted or lowered; a rope which hold…

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Impersonate 76% connected

To invest with personality; to endow with the form of a living being.

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Parody 76% connected

A writing in which the language or sentiment of an author is mimicked; especially, a kind of literary pleasantry, in which what is written on one sub…

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Rag 76% connected

To scold or rail at; to rate; to tease; to torment; to banter.

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Rally 76% connected

To collect, and reduce to order, as troops dispersed or thrown into confusion; to gather again; to reunite.

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Rib 76% connected

One of the curved bones attached to the vertebral column and supporting the lateral walls of the thorax.

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Ride 76% connected

To be carried on the back of an animal, as a horse.

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Ridicule 76% connected

An object of sport or laughter; a laughingstock; a laughing matter.

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Roast 76% connected

To cook by exposure to radiant heat before a fire; as, to roast meat on a spit, or in an oven open toward the fire and having reflecting surfaces wit…

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Tantalize 76% connected

To tease or torment by presenting some good to the view and exciting desire, but continually frustrating the expectations by keeping that good out of…

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Taunt 76% connected

Very high or tall; as, a ship with taunt masts.

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Tease 76% connected

To comb or card, as wool or flax.

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Twit 76% connected

To vex by bringing to notice, or reminding of, a fault, defect, misfortune, or the like; to revile; to reproach; to upbraid; to taunt; as, he twitted…

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Broader term 7

Copy 76% connected

An abundance or plenty of anything.

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Derision 76% connected

The act of deriding, or the state of being derided; mockery; scornful or contemptuous treatment which holds one up to ridicule.

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Handle 76% connected

To touch; to feel with the hand; to use or hold with the hand.

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Imitate 76% connected

To follow as a pattern, model, or example; to copy or strive to copy, in acts, manners etc.

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Ridicule 76% connected

An object of sport or laughter; a laughingstock; a laughing matter.

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Simulate 76% connected

Feigned; pretended.

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Treat 76% connected

To handle; to manage; to use; to bear one's self toward; as, to treat prisoners cruelly; to treat children kindly.

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Derivationally related 2

Mocker 74% connected

One who, or that which, mocks; a scorner; a scoffer; a derider.

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Mocker 74% connected

One who, or that which, mocks; a scorner; a scoffer; a derider.

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Synonym 1

Bemock 92% connected

To mock; to ridicule.

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