Facsimile (noun): an exact copy

“The Statue of Liberty has never made me feel at home, either in the New York Harbor or on Las Vegas Boulevard, where it stood squat and compressed as I drove past, a facsimile in incremental scale.”

“Walk with Me” – David L Ulin

This word was a very hard one for me to distinguish as it was a word I had actually never came across. The only thing I could make of it was simile which is comparing two unlike things. However, the author was comparing two Statue of Liberty’s so that could not have been it. When researched, it turns out that the prefix changes a lot of the meaning of the word.