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mock as in: don't mock me
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She was upset when he mocked her.mocked = made fun of
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I will not permit the defendant to make a mockery of this trial.mockery = something that is ridiculous
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American's have a hard time understanding that to mock Islam is to invite violence.mock = make fun of
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Abuses at Abu Ghraib made a mockery of American idealism.mockery = something that appears ridiculous
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They play a familiar dance tune, as if to mock the dirge playing inside his head. (source)mock = make fun of
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"So Via has a boyfriend!" I said to Ella, kind of mocking. (source)mocking = teasing (making fun)
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Behind Max Vandenburg, the city of Stuttgart opened its arms in mockery. (source)mockery = ridicule
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Stanley had also tried to explain that he needed to save his energy so he could teach Zero how to read, but the other boys just mocked him. (source)mocked = made fun of
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“Why did you bring me out so far?” he asked mockingly. “Were you afraid I'd escape?” (source)mockingly = in a manner intended to make fun of her
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'You didn't invite me, you didn't invite me,"' he mocks.† (source)mocks = makes fun of
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Perhaps I could mock Tyler with more credibility if I had not remembered, as I did just now, that to this day I have never been immunized. (source)mock = make fun of
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That one Day I kept silence, but the morrow morn I sought my parents, told that tale of scorn And claimed the truth; and they rose in their pride And smote the mocker....Aye, they satisfied All my desire; yet still the cavil gnawed My heart, and still the story crept abroad.† (source)mocker = someone making fun of others
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From under his creased brows he glowered with hate at the mockers.† (source)mockers = people making fun of others
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Whereas the phrase "till death us do part" is one of the more amusing mockeries in the nuptial arrangements of a large proportion of the human race, with wolves it is a simple fact.† (source)mockeries = ridiculous things (often poking fun)
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So spoke he, boastful: but the winged dart Stopp'd short of life, and mock'd the shooter's art.† (source)mock'd = made fun of
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mock as in: a mock trial
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Law students compete in a pretend court in a mock trial competition.
mock = not real
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It is an exercise where the two divisions take part in a mock battle.
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"What's wrong?" she said with mock sympathy. (source)mock = not real (pretended in a fun way)
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"Let's think," said Ron in mock puzzlement. (source)mock = pretend
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They still seemed playful, making mock attacks at Ellie. (source)mock = pretend (not real)
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As a gag, one of the Herman Miller staffers put a picture of the chair on the mock-up cover of a supermarket tabloid, with the headline CHAIR OF DEATH: EVERYONE WHO SITS IN IT DIES and made it the cover of one of the early Aeron research reports.† (source)mock-up = a model or layout (not real)
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She sat on the ground, soaking her foot in the marsh's brine, all the while moving her mouth: open, close, open, close, mocking yawns, chewing motions, anything to keep it from jamming up. (source)mocking = pretend
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Suddenly Peter smiled and clapped his hands together in a mockery of good cheer. (source)mockery = something pretended
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I shall be told that the jousts of Suero de Quinones, him of the 'Paso,' and the emprise of Mosen Luis de Falces against the Castilian knight, Don Gonzalo de Guzman, were mere mockeries; as well as many other achievements of Christian knights of these and foreign realms, which are so authentic and true, that, I repeat, he who denies them must be totally wanting in reason and good sense. (source)mockeries = fakes
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Sodapop looked down at me with mock superiority, but Darry went on: (source)mock = pretend (not real)
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I found the mock-up of Bin Laden's compound just outside the doors to the main briefing room.† (source)mock-up = a model or layout (not real)
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I gave her a languorous, world-weary, faintly mocking smile. (source)mocking = pretend
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"Terrifying," Will says with mock seriousness. (source)mock = pretend (not real)
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On September 9, 1959, I read that NASA had launched a mock-up of a Mercury manned capsule aboard a Big Joe rocket.† (source)mock-up = a model or layout (not real)
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rare meaning
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Mock Bisque, Perch a la Provencale, Chicken a la Providence — on it came, one course after another, unrolling in an inevitable procession, like a tidal wave, or doom. (source)Mock = a way of preparing food
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High above us in the darkness a solitary mocker poured out his repertoire in blissful unawareness of whose tree he sat in, plunging from the shrill kee, kee of the sunflower bird to the irascible qua-ack of a bluejay, to the sad lament of Poor Will, Poor Will, Poor Will. (source)mocker = a mockingbird
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And the mocker he'd stayed right with me, (source)
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Mock-vater! (source)Mock = rare meaning
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The mockingbirds and the jays, engaged in their old feud for possession of the magnolia tree beneath her window, were bickering, the jays strident, acrimonious, the mockers sweet voiced and plaintive. (source)mockers = mockingbirds
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