✅ Drain means to exhaust or use all of something, often gradually (The meeting drained my patience).

✅ Deplete means to decrease something by a substantial amount or use all or most of it up (The repairs depleted our savings).

✅ Drain and deplete both mean to cause to run out of a certain resource.

✅ Drain indicates a more gradual but eventually complete emptying process, while deplete suggests a reduction of an element that is so severe it inhibits functioning.

✅ Voice means to express something in words (I voiced my concerns to my boss).

✅ Assert means to state something with confidence (I asserted my boundaries).

✅ Voice and assert both mean to express something and make something clear in words.

✅ Assert suggests confidence and power, whereas voice emphasizes expressing something, especially something that has been hidden or forgotten (She voiced what we all had been thinking).

✅ Imitate means to copy or mimic (I built my confidence by imitating people I admire).

✅ Impersonate means to copy someone’s mannerisms in order to be entertaining (The comedian impersonated a politician).

✅ Imitate and impersonate both mean to copy someone and act like them.

✅ While impersonate can mean to mimic someone for fun, it can also mean to pretend to be someone in order to mislead or commit a crime (The fraudster impersonated her aunt).