| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | repeat |
| Synonyms: | ape, chant, copy, copycat, echo, imitate, mime, mimic, quote, recite, reiterate |
| Notes: | a tame parrot is sometimes called a poll parrot, poll, or polly; a parakeet is a smaller slender parrot |
| Main Entry: | copy |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | imitate |
| Synonyms: | act like, ape, burlesque, do, do a take-off, do like, echo, embody, emulate, epitomize, fake, follow, follow example, follow suit, go like, illustrate, incarnate, knock off, make like, mimic, mirror, mock, model, parody, parrot, personify, phony, pirate, play a role, prefigure, repeat, sham, simulate, steal, take leaf out of book, take off, travesty, typify |
| Notes: | Xerox is actually a trademark for copies made on that brand of machine; copy is a duplicate made in any of a number of ways, while photocopy is a duplicate made using a machine with a photographic process |
| Antonyms: | be original |
| Main Entry: | echo |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | repeat, copy |
| Synonyms: | ape, ditto*, do like, go like, imitate, impersonate, make like, mimic, mirror, parallel, parrot, react, recall, redouble, reflect, reiterate, reproduce, resemble, resound, respond, reverberate, ring, rubber-stamp, second, vibrate |
| Main Entry: | gossip |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | person who talks a lot, spreads |
| Synonyms: | blabbermouth, busybody, chatterbox, chatterer, circulator, flibbertigibbet, gossipmonger, informer, meddler, newsmonger, parrot, prattler, rumormonger, rumors babbler, scandalizer, scandalmonger, snoop, talebearer, tattler, telltale |
| Main Entry: | imitative |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | simulated, unoriginal |
| Synonyms: | artful, copied, copycat, copying, counterfeit, deceptive, derivative, echoic, emulative, emulous, following, forged, mimetic, mimic, mimicking, mock, onomatopoeic, parrot, plagiarized, pseudo*, put-on, reflecting, reflective, secondhand, sham*, simulant |
| Antonyms: | different, genuine, original |
| Main Entry: | mimic |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | person who imitates |
| Synonyms: | actor, caricaturist, comedian, copycat, imitator, impersonator, impressionist, mime, mummer, parodist, parrot, performer, playactor, player, thespian, trouper |
| Main Entry: | mimic |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | imitate, mock |
| Synonyms: | act, ape, burlesque, caricature, copy, copycat, ditto*, do, do like, echo, enact, fake, go like, impersonate, look like, make believe, make fun of, make like, mime, mirror, pantomime, parody, parrot, perform, personate, play, resemble, ridicule, sham, simulate, take off, travesty |
| Main Entry: | quote |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | repeat something spoken, written by another |
| Synonyms: | adduce, attest, cite, detail, excerpt, extract, instance, name, paraphrase, parrot, proclaim, recall, recite, recollect, refer to, reference, retell |
| Notes: | one should use quote exclusively as a verb and use quotation as a noun |
| Main Entry: | recite |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | read out loud; narrate |
| Synonyms: | account for, address, answer, chant, communicate, convey, declaim, delineate, deliver, describe, detail, discourse, dramatize, enact, enlarge, enumerate, expatiate, explain, give a report, give an account, give verbal account, hold forth, impart, interpret, itemize, mention, parrot, perform, picture, portray, quote, recapitulate, recount, reel off, rehearse, relate, render, repeat, reply, report, retell, soliloquize, speak, state, tell, utter |