mockery
Other forms: mockeries
The noun mockery means ridicule or making a fool out of someone. Mockery of your history teacher is unwise just before she grades your mid-term exams.
Mockery is making fun of or mocking someone or something. The act of mockery often involves copying someone's behavior or speech, making it look absurd, like a parody. For example, comedians often get laughs with mockery, by pretending to be famous politicians and exaggerating the way they talk or gesture. The expression "to make a mockery of" means to make something appear foolish or absurd, even if that’s not the intent — like a trial that “makes a mockery of justice.”
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showing your contempt by derision
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humorous or satirical mimicry
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a composition that imitates or misrepresents somebody's style, usually in a humorous waytype of:caricature, imitation, impersonationa representation of a person that is exaggerated for comic effect
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Vocabulary lists containing mockery
As you read Edgar Allan Poe's "The Tell-Tale Heart," learn this word list. Here are links to lists for texts in Grade 8's Collection 2: The Tell-Tale Heart, Scary Tales, The Monkey's Paw, What Is the Horror Genre?
Susan B. Anthony was arrested when she illegally voted in the 1872 presidential election. She delivered this argument for women's suffrage in 1873. Read the full text here.