act, adumbrate, create a role, embody, foreshadow, incarnate, mirror, personify, play opposite, pretend to be, reflect, support
Definitionv. pretend to be someone you are not
Last update: June 7, 2015
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Orpheus, in the manner of his death, was considered to personate the god Dionysus, and was thus the representative of the god torn to pieces every year, a ceremony enacted by the Bacchae in the earliest times with a human victim, afterwards with a bull to represent the bull-formed god. [Please select]
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"But you must have known that the boy was to personate some one else." [Please select]
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He looked something like the officer whom he personated, who was to command a small steamer in the gulf. [Please select]
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"It is a strange story, and I cannot see how Corny succeeded in passing himself off as the officer he personated." [Please select]
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"Oh, I am the officer whom Corny personated," replied the commander with a quiet smile. [Please select]
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But it had to be done, for I meant to personate a boy--having stolen a boy's hunting dress for that purpose. [Please select]
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Give, and under the personate father of a family think, if thou pleasest, that thou hast relieved an indigent bachelor. [Please select]
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--It will prove interesting if one pupil reads the first six lines of the selection, and two others personate St. [Please select]
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** Boys Representing the Centaur [173] This is a diversion in which two boys personate a Centaur, a creature of Greek mythology, half man and half horse. [Please select]
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Francesca and I were now obliged to creep from under the tarpaulins and personate the disheveled ladies on the strand. [Please select]
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