assign vs personate

assign and personate both are verbs.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
assign	No	No	Yes	No
personate	No	No	Yes	No

As verbs, personate is a hyponym of assign; that is, personate is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than assign:

assign (verb)	personate (verb)
select something or someone for a specific purpose	attribute human qualities to something
attribute or credit to	pretend to be someone you are not; sometimes with fraudulent intentions
decide as to where something belongs in a scheme
attribute or give
transfer one's right to
give out
make undue claims to having
give an assignment to (a person) to a post, or assign a task to (a person)