personate vs impersonate

personate and impersonate both are verbs.

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

As verbs, personate and impersonate are synonyms defined as:

personate and impersonate: pretend to be someone you are not; sometimes with fraudulent intentions

Other synonyms of personate include pose.

personate (verb)	impersonate (verb)
attribute human qualities to something	pretend to be someone you are not; sometimes with fraudulent intentions
pretend to be someone you are not; sometimes with fraudulent intentions	represent another person with comic intentions
	assume or act the character of