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| disguise |
A disguise is something you wear or put on to hide who you are. People sometimes use eyeglasses, a wig, or an imitation beard or mustache as part of a disguise, or they wear the clothes of a different type of person. [1/4 definitions] |
| imitation |
Something that is imitation is made to look or seem like something it is not. Imitation cheese, for example, is not real cheese but it is designed to look and taste like it. [2 definitions] |
| mimic |
to make fun of a person by imitation. [1/3 definitions] |
| mock |
to make fun of by imitation. [1/3 definitions] |
| toy |
used as a plaything, especially being a tiny likeness or imitation of a larger object. [1/3 definitions] |
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