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- acting
collapse - the performance of a part or role in a drama related words >
- act,
- action,
- active,
- activism,
- activity,
- ad interim,
- affectation,
- aping,
- appearance,
- at work,
- attitudinizing,
- behavior,
- behavioral,
- bluff,
- bluffing,
- buffoonery,
- business,
- characterization,
- cheating,
- color,
- coloring,
- deception,
- delusion,
- deputative,
- deputy,
- disguise,
- dissemblance,
- dissembling,
- dissimulation,
- doing,
- dumb show,
- embodiment,
- employment,
- enacting,
- enactment,
- exercise,
- facade,
- face,
- fakery,
- faking,
- false air,
- false front,
- false show,
- falsity,
- feigning,
- feint,
- four-flushing,
- fraud,
- front,
- function,
- functional,
- functioning,
- gag,
- gilt,
- gloss,
- going,
- going on,
- ham,
- hammy acting,
- hoke,
- hokum,
- humbug,
- humbuggery,
- imitation,
- impersonation,
- imposture,
- in exercise,
- in force,
- in hand,
- in operation,
- in play,
- in practice,
- in process,
- in the works,
- inaction,
- incarnation,
- interim,
- masquerade,
- meretriciousness,
- mimesis,
- mimicking,
- mimicry,
- miming,
- movements,
- mummery,
- occupation,
- on foot,
- on the fire,
- ongoing,
- operating,
- operation,
- operational,
- operations,
- ostentation,
- outward show,
- overacting,
- pantomime,
- pantomiming,
- patter,
- performance,
- performing,
- personation,
- personification,
- play,
- playacting,
- playing,
- portrayal,
- pose,
- posing,
- posture,
- practice,
- practicing,
- praxis,
- pretense,
- pretension,
- pretext,
- pro tem,
- pro tempore,
- projection,
- representation,
- representative,
- running,
- seeming,
- semblance,
- serving,
- sham,
- show,
- simulacrum,
- simulation,
- slapstick,
- speciousness,
- stage business,
- stage directions,
- stage presence,
- stunt,
- supply,
- swing,
- taking a role,
- varnish,
- window dressing,
- work,
- working,
- workings
- Pecksniffery,
- Tartuffery,
- Tartuffism,
- adulation,
- advocate,
- allurement,
- artful endearments,
- be hypocritical,
- bill and coo,
- blandish,
- blandishment,
- blandishments,
- blandness,
- blarney,
- bunkum,
- butter,
- cajole,
- cajolement,
- cajolery,
- call on,
- call upon,
- cant,
- caress,
- coax,
- coaxing,
- compliment,
- conning,
- copulate,
- dally,
- empty gesture,
- endearment,
- engagement,
- enlistment,
- exhort,
- exhortation,
- eyewash,
- fair words,
- false piety,
- fawning,
- flattery,
- fulsomeness,
- give lip service,
- give mouth honor,
- glibness,
- grease,
- high-pressure,
- honeyed phrases,
- honeyed words,
- hortation,
- hypocrisy,
- hypocriticalness,
- importune,
- incense,
- inducement,
- insist,
- insist upon,
- jawbone,
- jawboning,
- lip service,
- lobby,
- lobbying,
- lollygag,
- make love,
- make out,
- mealymouthedness,
- mouth,
- mouthing,
- mummery,
- nag,
- neck,
- oil,
- oiliness,
- ostentatious devotion,
- palaver,
- pat,
- persuasion,
- pet,
- pharisaism,
- play the hypocrite,
- plead with,
- praise,
- preaching,
- preachment,
- press,
- pressure,
- pretty lies,
- push,
- recommend,
- reek of piety,
- religiosity,
- render lip service,
- sales talk,
- salesmanship,
- sanctimoniousness,
- sanctimony,
- selling,
- smooch,
- smoothness,
- smugness,
- snivel,
- snow job,
- snuffle,
- snuffling,
- soap,
- soft soap,
- soft words,
- soft-soap,
- solicitation,
- spoon,
- suasion,
- suaveness,
- suavity,
- sweet nothings,
- sweet words,
- sycophancy,
- tokenism,
- toy,
- trifle,
- unctuousness,
- urge,
- wanton,
- wheedle,
- wheedling,
- whisper sweet nothings,
- work on,
- working on
- acting,
- affectation,
- affectedness,
- airs,
- airs and graces,
- anteriority,
- appearance,
- artificiality,
- attitudinizing,
- blazon,
- bluff,
- bluffing,
- bold front,
- brave face,
- brave front,
- bravura,
- brilliancy,
- camouflage,
- cheating,
- cloak,
- color,
- coloring,
- cover,
- daring,
- dash,
- deception,
- delusion,
- demonstration,
- disguise,
- display,
- dissemblance,
- dissembling,
- dissimulation,
- domino,
- dramatics,
- eclat,
- etalage,
- exhibition,
- exhibitionism,
- facade,
- face,
- facet,
- facia,
- fakery,
- faking,
- false air,
- false colors,
- false face,
- false show,
- falsity,
- fanfaronade,
- feigned belief,
- feigning,
- feint,
- figure,
- flair,
- flaunt,
- flaunting,
- flourish,
- fore,
- forefront,
- foreground,
- forehand,
- foreland,
- forepart,
- forequarter,
- foreside,
- foreword,
- four-flushing,
- fraud,
- front,
- front elevation,
- front man,
- front matter,
- front page,
- front view,
- frontage,
- frontal,
- frontier,
- frontispiece,
- gilt,
- gloss,
- head,
- heading,
- histrionics,
- humbug,
- humbuggery,
- hypocrisy,
- image,
- imposture,
- incognito,
- insincerity,
- lap,
- manifestation,
- mannerism,
- mask,
- masque,
- masquerade,
- mere show,
- meretriciousness,
- mummery,
- obverse,
- ostentation,
- outward show,
- pageant,
- pageantry,
- parade,
- playacting,
- pose,
- posing,
- posture,
- preface,
- prefix,
- pretense,
- pretension,
- pretext,
- priority,
- proscenium,
- protective coloration,
- prunes and prisms,
- public image,
- put-on,
- putting on airs,
- representation,
- seeming,
- semblance,
- sham,
- show,
- showing-off,
- simulacrum,
- simulation,
- smoke screen,
- speciousness,
- spectacle,
- splash,
- splurge,
- staginess,
- stylishness,
- theatrics,
- unnaturalness,
- varnish,
- vaunt,
- veil,
- visor,
- vizard,
- vizard mask,
- window dressing
- inaugural
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- serving to set in motion; "the magazine's inaugural issue"; "the initiative phase in the negotiations"; "an initiatory step toward a treaty"; "his first (or maiden) speech in Congress"; "the liner's maiden voyage"
- occurring at or characteristic of a formal investiture or induction; "the President's inaugural address"; "an inaugural ball" related words >
- abecedarian,
- aboriginal,
- address,
- advanced,
- after-dinner speech,
- allocution,
- antecedent,
- antenatal,
- anterior,
- autochthonous,
- avant-garde,
- baccalaureate service,
- beginning,
- budding,
- celebration,
- ceremonial,
- ceremony,
- chalk talk,
- chief,
- commencement,
- convocation,
- creative,
- debate,
- declamation,
- diatribe,
- elemental,
- elementary,
- embryonic,
- empty formality,
- eulogy,
- exercise,
- exercises,
- exhortation,
- exordial,
- exploratory,
- fetal,
- filibuster,
- first,
- foremost,
- forensic,
- forensic address,
- formal,
- formal speech,
- formality,
- formative,
- foundational,
- function,
- fundamental,
- funeral oration,
- gestatory,
- graduation,
- graduation exercises,
- harangue,
- headmost,
- hortatory address,
- in embryo,
- in its infancy,
- in the bud,
- inaugural address,
- inauguration,
- inceptive,
- inchoate,
- inchoative,
- incipient,
- incunabular,
- induction,
- infant,
- infantile,
- initial,
- initiation,
- initiative,
- initiatory,
- installation,
- introductory,
- invective,
- inventive,
- investiture,
- jeremiad,
- leading,
- liturgy,
- mummery,
- nascent,
- natal,
- observance,
- office,
- oration,
- original,
- parturient,
- pep talk,
- performance,
- peroration,
- philippic,
- pitch,
- postnatal,
- precedent,
- preceding,
- precessional,
- precursory,
- prefatory,
- pregnant,
- preliminary,
- preludial,
- prelusive,
- prenatal,
- preparatory,
- prepared speech,
- prepared text,
- prevenient,
- primal,
- primary,
- prime,
- primeval,
- primitive,
- primogenial,
- prior,
- procreative,
- proemial,
- propaedeutic,
- public speech,
- reading,
- recital,
- recitation,
- religious ceremony,
- rite,
- rite de passage,
- rite of passage,
- ritual,
- rudimental,
- rudimentary,
- sales talk,
- salutatory,
- salutatory address,
- say,
- screed,
- service,
- set speech,
- solemnity,
- solemnization,
- speech,
- speechification,
- speeching,
- talk,
- talkathon,
- tirade,
- ur,
- valediction,
- valedictory,
- valedictory address
- celebration
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- any joyous diversion
- the public performance of a sacrament or solemn ceremony with all appropriate ritual; "the celebration of marriage"
- a joyful occasion for special festivities to mark some happy event related words >
- Sabbatarianism,
- agape,
- asperges,
- aspersion,
- auricular confession,
- baccalaureate service,
- bacchanal,
- bacchanalia,
- bacchanalian,
- banquet,
- bar mitzvah,
- bas mitzvah,
- bat,
- bender,
- binge,
- bout,
- bust,
- carousal,
- carouse,
- ceremonial,
- ceremonialism,
- ceremony,
- circumcision,
- commemoration,
- commencement,
- compotation,
- confession,
- confirmation,
- convocation,
- cult,
- cultism,
- cultus,
- debauch,
- drinking bout,
- drunk,
- drunken carousal,
- elation,
- empty formality,
- escapade,
- exercise,
- exercises,
- exultation,
- feast,
- festivity,
- fete,
- fling,
- formal,
- formalism,
- formality,
- frolic,
- function,
- gala,
- graduation,
- graduation exercises,
- guzzle,
- hallowing,
- high celebration,
- hoopla,
- inaugural,
- inauguration,
- incense,
- initiation,
- invocation,
- invocation of saints,
- jag,
- joyance,
- jubilance,
- jubilation,
- jubilee,
- kiss of peace,
- lark,
- lesser litany,
- litany,
- liturgics,
- liturgiology,
- liturgism,
- liturgy,
- love feast,
- lustration,
- mad round,
- memorialization,
- merriment,
- merrymaking,
- mummery,
- observance,
- observation,
- office,
- orgy,
- party,
- pax,
- performance,
- ploy,
- potation,
- praising,
- processional,
- pub-crawl,
- randan,
- randy,
- raucous happiness,
- reciting the rosary,
- regale,
- regalement,
- rejoicing,
- religious ceremony,
- revel,
- revelment,
- revelry,
- rite,
- rite de passage,
- rite of passage,
- ritual,
- ritualism,
- rituality,
- ritualization,
- round of pleasures,
- sabbatism,
- sacramentalism,
- sacramentarianism,
- sanctification,
- service,
- show of joy,
- solemn observance,
- solemnity,
- solemnization,
- spree,
- symbolics,
- symbolism,
- symposium,
- tear,
- telling of beads,
- the confessional,
- the confessionary,
- toot,
- treat,
- triumph,
- wassail,
- whoopee,
- wingding
- stunt
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- a difficult or unusual or dangerous feat; usually done to gain attention
- a creature (especially a whale) that has been prevented from attaining full growth
- perform a stunt or stunts
- check the growth or development of; "You will stunt your growth by building all these muscles" related words >
- abbreviate,
- abridge,
- abstract,
- accomplished fact,
- accomplishment,
- achievement,
- act,
- acta,
- acting,
- action,
- adventure,
- arrest,
- bank,
- blow,
- bob,
- boil down,
- buffoonery,
- business,
- caper,
- capsulize,
- characterization,
- check,
- clip,
- compress,
- condense,
- contract,
- coup,
- crab,
- crop,
- curb,
- curtail,
- cut,
- cut back,
- cut down,
- cut off short,
- cut short,
- dealings,
- deed,
- delimit,
- dido,
- dip,
- dock,
- doing,
- doings,
- dwarf,
- effort,
- elide,
- end,
- endeavor,
- enterprise,
- epitomize,
- exploit,
- fait accompli,
- feat,
- feather,
- fishtail,
- foreshorten,
- gag,
- gest,
- go,
- ham,
- hammy acting,
- hamper,
- hand,
- handiwork,
- hinder,
- hoke,
- hokum,
- hold back,
- impair,
- impede,
- impersonation,
- job,
- limit,
- loop,
- maneuver,
- measure,
- mimesis,
- mimicking,
- mimicry,
- miming,
- move,
- mow,
- mummery,
- nip,
- operation,
- overacting,
- overt act,
- pantomiming,
- passage,
- patter,
- performance,
- performing,
- personation,
- playacting,
- playing,
- plow,
- poll,
- pollard,
- porpoise,
- portrayal,
- proceeding,
- production,
- projection,
- prune,
- pull out,
- pull up,
- push down,
- reap,
- recap,
- recapitulate,
- reduce,
- representation,
- res gestae,
- restrict,
- retard,
- retrench,
- roll,
- runty,
- shave,
- shear,
- shorten,
- sideslip,
- skid,
- slapstick,
- slow,
- snub,
- spin,
- spiral,
- stage business,
- stage directions,
- stage presence,
- step,
- stop,
- stroke,
- sum up,
- summarize,
- suppress,
- synopsize,
- take in,
- taking a role,
- telescope,
- thing,
- thing done,
- tour de force,
- transaction,
- trick,
- trim,
- truncate,
- turn,
- undertaking,
- undulate,
- work,
- works,
- yaw
- ritual
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- stereotyped behavior
- any customary observance or practice
- the prescribed procedure for conducting religious ceremonies
- of or relating to or employed in social rites or rituals; "a ritual dance of Haiti"; "sedate little colonial tribe with its ritual tea parties"- Nadine Gordimer
- of or relating to or characteristic of religious rituals; "ritual killing" related words >
- High-Church,
- Sefer Torah,
- Torah,
- Torah scroll,
- Virginal,
- amenities,
- automatic,
- baccalaureate service,
- baptismal,
- bon ton,
- breviary,
- buckram,
- canon,
- celebration,
- ceremonial,
- ceremonies,
- ceremonious,
- ceremoniousness,
- ceremony,
- church book,
- civilities,
- commencement,
- conformity,
- consuetude,
- convention,
- conventional,
- convocation,
- custom,
- customary,
- decorous,
- dignities,
- dignity,
- duty,
- elegancies,
- empty formality,
- established way,
- etiquette,
- eucharistic,
- euchologion,
- euchology,
- exercise,
- exercises,
- extrinsicality,
- farse,
- fashion,
- folkway,
- form,
- form of worship,
- formal,
- formalities,
- formality,
- formalization,
- formula,
- formular,
- formulary,
- function,
- gentilities,
- graces,
- graduation,
- graduation exercises,
- gravity,
- habitual,
- hieratic,
- holy rite,
- impersonality,
- inaugural,
- inauguration,
- initiation,
- institution,
- lectionary,
- litany,
- liturgic,
- liturgistic,
- liturgy,
- machzor,
- manner,
- manners,
- manual,
- missal,
- mode of worship,
- mores,
- mummery,
- mystery,
- observance,
- office,
- order of worship,
- ordinal,
- ordinance,
- paschal,
- performance,
- perfunctory,
- pomp,
- pomposity,
- pompous,
- pontifical,
- practice,
- praxis,
- prayer book,
- prescribed,
- prescribed form,
- prescription,
- primness,
- procedural,
- proper thing,
- protocol,
- religious ceremony,
- rigidness,
- rite,
- rite de passage,
- rite of passage,
- rites,
- ritual observance,
- rituale,
- ritualistic,
- rituality,
- rituals,
- routine,
- rubric,
- sacerdotal,
- sacrament,
- sacramental,
- sacramentarian,
- service,
- service book,
- siddur,
- social convention,
- solemn,
- solemnity,
- solemnization,
- standard behavior,
- standard usage,
- standing custom,
- starchiness,
- stately,
- stiffness,
- stiltedness,
- stylization,
- time-honored practice,
- tradition,
- usage,
- use,
- usual,
- way,
- weight,
- well-mannered,
- what is done,
- wont,
- wonting
- snuffle
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- the act of breathing heavily through the nose (as when the nose is congested)
- snuff up mucus through the nose related words >
- Aqua-Lung,
- Tartuffery,
- Tartuffism,
- affectation,
- artificial respiration,
- aspirate,
- aspiration,
- assibilate,
- assibilation,
- asthmatic wheeze,
- be hypocritical,
- blandish,
- blow,
- breath,
- breath of air,
- breathe,
- breathe hard,
- breathe in,
- breathe out,
- breathing,
- broken wind,
- buzz,
- cant,
- cough,
- draw in,
- effervesce,
- effervescence,
- effervescing,
- exhalation,
- exhale,
- exhaust,
- expel,
- expiration,
- expire,
- exsufflation,
- false piety,
- falseness,
- fizz,
- fizzle,
- fizzling,
- frication,
- frictional rustling,
- gasp,
- give lip service,
- give mouth honor,
- goody-goodiness,
- gulp,
- hack,
- hiccup,
- hiss,
- hissing,
- huff,
- hush,
- hushing,
- hypocrisy,
- inhalation,
- inhalator,
- inhale,
- inhalement,
- insincerity,
- inspiration,
- inspire,
- insufflation,
- iron lung,
- lisp,
- mealymouthedness,
- mouth,
- mouth-to-mouth resuscitation,
- mummery,
- nose,
- oiliness,
- oxygen mask,
- oxygen tent,
- pant,
- pharisaicalness,
- pharisaism,
- pietism,
- pietisticalness,
- piety,
- piousness,
- play the hypocrite,
- puff,
- reek of piety,
- religionism,
- religiosity,
- render lip service,
- respiration,
- respire,
- rhonchus,
- sanctimoniousness,
- sanctimony,
- scent,
- scuba,
- self-righteousness,
- shush,
- shushing,
- sibilance,
- sibilate,
- sibilation,
- siffle,
- sigh,
- sigmatism,
- siss,
- sissing,
- sizz,
- sizzle,
- sizzling,
- slurp,
- smell,
- smell of,
- sneeze,
- sneezing,
- sniff,
- sniffle,
- snivel,
- snore,
- snoring,
- snort,
- snuff,
- snuff in,
- soft-soap,
- spit,
- splutter,
- sputter,
- squash,
- squelch,
- squish,
- sternutation,
- stertor,
- suck,
- suck in,
- sucking,
- suckle,
- suction,
- suspiration,
- sweet-talk,
- swish,
- twang,
- unction,
- unctuousness,
- wheeze,
- whiff,
- whish,
- whistle,
- whistling,
- white noise,
- whiz,
- whoosh,
- wind,
- zip
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