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| Mawson, C.O.S., ed. (1870–1938). Roget’s International Thesaurus. 1922. |
| Class I. Words Expressing Abstract Relations |
| Section II. Relation |
| 3. Partial Relation |
| 19. Imitation. |
| NOUN: | IMITATION; copying &c. v.; transcription; repetition, duplication, reduplication; quotation; reproduction; mimeography. MOCKERY, apery, mimicking, mimicry. SIMULATION, personation; parrotism, parrotry; representation [See Representation]; semblance, pretense; copy [See Copy]; assimilation. paraphrase, parody [See Copy]. PLAGIARISM; forgery (falsehood) [See Falsehood]. IMITATOR, echo, cuckoo, parrot, ape, monkey, mocking bird, mimic; copyist. |
| VERB: | IMITATE, copy, mirror, reflect, reproduce, repeat; do like, echo, reëcho, catch; transcribe; match, parallel. MOCK, take off, borrow, mimic, ape, simulate, personate; act (drama) [See The Drama]; represent [See Representation]; counterfeit, forge, parody, travesty, caricature, burlesque. FOLLOW in the steps of, follow in the footsteps of; follow in the wake of; tread in the steps of, tread in the footsteps of; take pattern by; follow suit [colloq.], follow the example of; walk in the shoes of, take a leaf out of another’s book, strike in with; take after, model after; emulate. |
| ADJECTIVE: | IMITATED &c. v.; mock, mimic; modeled after, molded on. PARAPHRASTIC; literal; imitative; secondhand; imitable; aping, apish, mimicking, borrowed, counterfeit, imitation, false, pseudo, near- [as, near-silk, colloq., U. S.]. |
| ADVERB: | LITERALLY, to the letter, verbatim, literatim [L.], sic [L.], totidem verbis [L.], word for word, mot à mot [F.], verbatim et literatim [L.]; exactly, precisely. |
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