mock /mok/

1. To deride
2. To scoff at derisively
3. To make fun of
4. To mimic in ridicule
5. To simulate
6. To defy, tantalize, disappoint, deceive, disparage, or make a fool of as if in mockery (figurative)

1. To jeer
2. To scoff
3. To speak or behave insincerely or disparagingly

1. Ridicule
2. A bringing into ridicule
3. A scoff
4. A mockery
5. A thing mocked
6. (esp in pl) a practice examination taken at school as a preparation for a public examination

1. Sham
2. False
3. Resembling, or accepted as a substitute for, the true or real thing

mockˈable adjective

Worthy of derision

mockˈage noun (obsolete)

mockˈer noun

mockˈery noun

1. Derision
2. Ridicule
3. A subject of ridicule
4. Mimicry
5. Imitation, esp a contemptible or insulting imitation
6. False show
7. Insulting or ludicrous futility

mockˈing noun and adjective

mockˈingly adverb

mock-heroˈic adjective

In exaggerated imitation of the heroic style

noun

1. A mock-heroic composition
2. (in pl) mock-heroic verses
3. (in pl) sham heroic utterances or behaviour

mock-heroˈical adjective

mock-heroˈically adverb

mockˈingbird noun

Any of several American birds (genus Mimus) of the thrush family, that mimic other birds' songs and other sounds, esp Mimus polyglottos of the USA and Mexico

mockˈingthrush noun

A thrasher

mock-modˈest adjective

mock-modˈesty noun

Sham modesty

mock moon noun

A paraselene, or bright spot in the moon's halo, 22º to the right or left of the moon, due to refraction from ice crystals floating vertically

mock orange noun

1. A tall shrub (Philadelphus, commonly called syringa) of the saxifrage family with strong-scented flowers
2. A kind of cherry laurel (US)

• attunement
• attunements
• attunes
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• Atty
• Atty-Gen.
• at unawares
• a turn for the better
• a turn for the worse
• ATV
• at variance
• atwain
• atweel
• atween
• at will
• atwitter
• atwixt
• at worst
• at. wt.
• at your service
• atypical
• atypically
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