mock vs synthetic

mock

adj
  • Imitation, not genuine; fake. 

verb
  • To create a mockup or prototype of. 

  • To mimic, to simulate. 

  • To create an artistic representation of. 

  • To tantalise, and disappoint the hopes of. 

  • To make fun of, especially by mimicking; to taunt. 

noun
  • A practice exam set by an educating institution to prepare students for an important exam. 

  • A mockup or prototype; particularly, ellipsis of mock object., as used in unit testing. 

  • Mockery; the act of mocking. 

  • An imitation, usually of lesser quality. 

synthetic

adj
  • Artificial, not genuine. 

  • Of, or relating to synthesis. 

  • Produced by synthesis instead of being isolated from a natural source (but may be identical to a product so obtained). 

  • Produced by synthesis, thought to have the same effect as its natural counterpart, but chemically different from it. 

  • Pertaining to the joining of bound morphemes in a word (compare analytic). 

  • Of a language, having a grammar principally dependent on the use of bound morphemes to indicate syntactic relationships (compare analytic). 

noun
  • A synthetic compound. 

How often have the words mock and synthetic occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )