| mock | the act of mocking or ridiculing, they made a mock of him |
| mock-up | full-scale working model of something built for study or testing or display |
adventure story
heroic tale | a story of an adventure |
epic poem
heroic poem
epic
epos | a long narrative poem telling of a hero's deeds |
| heroic couplet | a couplet consisting of two rhymed lines of iambic pentameter and written in an elevated style |
| heroic stanza | a quatrain consisting of two heroic couplets written in an elevated style, the rhyme scheme is abab |
heroic verse
heroic meter
heroic | a verse form suited to the treatment of heroic or elevated themes, dactylic hexameter or iambic pentameter |
| mock-heroic | a satirical imitation of heroic verse |
heroic poetry
epic poetry | poetry celebrating the deeds of some hero |
| mock turtle soup | soup made from a calf's head or other meat in imitation of green turtle soup |
parhelion
mock sun
sundog | a bright spot on the parhelic circle, caused by diffraction by ice crystals, two or more parhelia are usually seen at once |
impala lily
mock azalia
desert rose
kudu lily
Adenium obesum
Adenium multiflorum | South African shrub having a swollen succulent stem and bearing showy pink and white flowers after the leaves fall, popular as an ornamental in tropics |
| mock privet | evergreen shrub with white flowers and olivelike fruits |
osage orange
bow wood
mock orange Maclura pomifera | small shrubby deciduous yellowwood tree of south central United States having spines, glossy dark green leaves and an inedible fruit that resembles an orange, its hard orangeolored wood used for bows by Native Americans, frequently planted as boundary hedge |
| cherry laurel laurel cherry mock orange wild orange Prunus caroliniana | small flowering evergreen tree of southern United States |
southern buckthorn
shittimwood shittim
mock orange Bumelia lycioides | shrubby thorny deciduous tree of southeastern United States with white flowers and small black drupaceous fruit |
| mock orange syringa Philadelphus coronarius | large hardy shrub with showy and strongly fragrant creamy-white flowers in short terminal racemes |
mock
bemock | treat with contempt, The new constitution mocks all democratic principles |
| mock | imitate with mockery and derision, The children mocked their handicapped classmate |
| model mock up | construct a model of, model an airplane |
heroic
heroical | having or displaying qualities appropriate for heroes, the heroic attack on the beaches of Normandy, heroic explorers |
desperate
heroic | showing extreme courage, especially of actions courageously undertaken in desperation as a last resort, made a last desperate attempt to reach the climber, the desperate gallantry of our naval task forces marked the turning point in the Pacific war- G.C.Marshall, they took heroic measures to save his life |
| mock | constituting a copy or imitation of something, boys in mock battle |
expansive
grand
heroic | of behavior that is impressive and ambitious in scale or scope, an expansive lifestyle, in the grand manner, collecting on a grand scale, heroic undertakings |
epic
heroic
larger-than-life | very imposing or impressive, surpassing the ordinary (especially in size or scale), an epic voyage, of heroic proportions, heroic sculpture |
| heroic | relating to or characteristic of heroes of antiquity, heroic legends, the heroic age |