Impersonate
Part of speech: verb
Definition: To manifest in corporeal form, or in one's own person or body. To pretend to be (a different person), to assume the identity of.
Example sentence: As the lawyer, I found most of it was a matter of research, which I was great at - that's what I did to death - and then basically persuading people that you're right, and they're wrong... I found that the easiest of all the professions to impersonate.
Portray
Part of speech: verb
Definition: To paint or draw the likeness of.Hence, figuratively, to describe in words.To adorn with pictures.
Example sentence: I believe the wedding vows are sacred and precious, and it's been one of my goals as a writer to portray the kind of marriages I've seen modeled in my family - my parents and grandparents, who all celebrated fifty-year anniversaries and well-beyond.