✅ 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).

✅ Mint refers to a particularly large amount of money (I made a mint selling that watch).

✅ Fortune refers to a lot of money, but can also refer to wealth that comes in other forms like property (The coat cost a fortune).

✅ Mint and fortune both refer to a large amount of money, especially an amount that allows you to be called rich or wealthy (She made a fortune writing hit songs).

✅ Mint is a more informal term than fortune.

✅ Artificial describes something that is made by humans instead of naturally occurring (artificial silk).

✅ Fabricated describes something that is made, especially using skill or labor (a fabricated steel frame).

✅ Artificial and fabricated both describe things that are not naturally occurring, such as artificial intelligence or AI, but can also both mean fake.

✅ Artificial can suggest that something is imitation or forced (a friendly but artificial expression; artificial flavoring). Fabricated can refer to something made-up (a fabricated tale). For example, sometimes artificial intelligence produces fabricated results.

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