acting

acting
adj
1. deputy, substitute, fill-in, temporary; representative, serving, practicing, performing.
2. functional, functioning, operational, operating, working, running, going, active; in action, in operation, at work.
n
3. histrionics, dramatics, dramaturgy; playacting, performing, enacting, enactment, playing; performance, rendition, theatrical, overacting, posturing, Sl. ham acting, Sl. hamming or hamming up.
4. portrayal, characterization, representation, projection; impersonation, personation; mimicry, mimicking, miming, Rhet. mimesis.
5. sham, posture, masquerade, show, false show, false front, fagade; bluff, posing, feigning, pretending, making believe.

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