People and roles
Synonyms for mimic
The synonym for mimic recorded in this bank is imitate, in the sense "to imitate someone's actions, speech, or manner". Below it sits the sentence that fixes that meaning, the same sentence with the swap made, and the words that only look close.
The synonym for mimic
- imitateverb, in the sense "to imitate someone's actions, speech, or manner"
One pair, read and signed off by a human before it shipped. The bank records a synonym per sense, so a second one appears here the day mimic is audited in a second meaning.
to imitate someone's actions, speech, or manner.
The little boy would mimic his father's walk, swinging his arms the exact same way.
The true synonym
imitate
Same sentence, swapped: The little boy would imitate his father's walk, swinging his arms the exact same way.
Close but different
The game shows these three beside the answer. Each is a real word with a real meaning and none of them fits the slot mimic is in above, which is the point the reason line makes.
- mock
- avoid
- admire
Where mimic turns up in the game
mimic is the word under test in one puzzle, at Tier 1, Foothills. It also sits on the board as one of the three wrong tiles in one other puzzle, where the answer is a different word entirely.
The puzzle where mimic is the trap
- morphverb, Tier 1, Foothills. The answer there is transform, in the sense "to change smoothly and gradually from one form into another", with mimic sitting one tile away.
Play mimic
The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so mimic reaches you as a board rather than a definition: the sentence first, four tiles, and the meaning after you choose.
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Closest first: other people and roles words at Foothills, then the same tier across the rest of the library.
The wrong tile gets explained too
Synonym Stack plays from this exact bank. mimic carries 1 written reason line, and the game shows them the moment a round ends, whichever tile you tapped.