Empty and Mock

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Empty adjective - Lacking contents that could or should be present.

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Mock and empty are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Mock" instead an adjective "Empty".

Nearby Words: emptiness, emptying, emptily

Mock adjective - Lacking in natural or spontaneous quality.

Usage example: since I had inadvertently learned what I was getting, I opened the present with mock surprise

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Empty and mock are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Empty" instead an adjective "Mock".

Nearby Words: mockery, mocking, mocked, mocker, mockingly

Raoul is probably worse because he's not simply too self-centered and stupid to realise how annoying he is; he genuinely feels that having the racial ability to fly makes him so superior to the ducks that he can heckle, jeer, mock and empty his bowels upon them whenever he sees fit.

Source: Western Animation / Sitting Ducks
Mock Guffin: The sought-after briefcase turns out to be empty and the actual information is hidden in the lighter that Snow had the entire time.

Source: Film / Lockout
Burma-Shave once offered a mock promotion that promised a trip to Mars for anyone who collected 900 empty jars.

Source: Competition Coupon Madness

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