These verbs mean to follow something or someone taken as a model.
- To imitate is to act like or follow a pattern or style set by another:
.... "Art imitates Nature" Richard Franck. - To copy is to duplicate an original as precisely as possible:
.... "His grandfather had spent a laborious life-time in Rome, copying the Old Masters for a generation which lacked the facile resource of the camera" Edith Wharton. - To mimic is to make a close imitation, often with an intent to ridicule:
.... "fresh carved cedar, mimicking a glade/Of palm and plaintain" John Keats. - To ape is to follow another's lead slavishly but often with an absurd result:
.... "Those [superior] states of mind do not come from aping an alien culture" John Russell. - To parody is either to imitate with comic effect or to attempt a serious imitation and fail:
.... "All these peculiarities [of Samuel Johnson's literary style] have been imitated by his admirers and parodied by his assailants" Thomas Macaulay. - To simulate is to feign or falsely assume the appearance or character of something:
.... "I ... lay there simulating death" W.H. Hudson.
... Am-Heritage, http://www.thefreedictionary.com/imitate
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