Acting

Synonyms Interim, provisional, ad interim, makeshift, substitute, provisory, make-do, temporary, proxy, alternate, backup, provisionary, stopgap, and jackleg.

Synonyms Theatre, footlights, drama, show business, showbiz, amusement, presentation, theatrics, spectacle, show, pageant, pageantry, entertainment, boards, production, theater, dramatics, stage, theatricals, diversion, recreation, exhibition, and distraction.

Synonyms Playing, portraying, doing, impersonating, enacting, rendering, overacting, imitating, miming, acting out, masquerading, clowning, aping, posing (as), coacting, costarring, co-starring, performing, interpreting, depicting, representing, dramatizing, pantomiming, playacting, role-playing, mimicking, underplaying, overplaying, hamming, taking on, roleplaying, co-acting, and starring (in).

Synonyms Working, operating, taking, behaving, resulting, taking hold, swaying, panning out, performing, reacting, responding, taking effect, affecting, influencing, and redounding.

Synonyms Seeming, feeling, appearing, pretending, coming across (as), implying, recalling, hinting, looking, sounding, making, coming off (as), resembling, suggesting, dissembling, and insinuating.

Synonyms Serving, working, operating, directing, regulating, guiding, supervising, carrying on, functioning, performing, controlling, managing, handling, running, administering, and overseeing.

Synonyms Pretending, assuming, feigning, professing, dissembling, posing, playing, counterfeiting, imitating, masquerading, impersonating, camouflaging, playacting, letting on, feinting, simulating, affecting, passing (for), faking, bluffing, shamming, forging, concealing, putting on, making believe, masking, disguising, dissimulating, and malingering.

Synonyms Playing, imitating, impersonating, posing (as), miming, copying, performing, monkeying, mocking, portraying, personating, masquerading (as), mimicking, parodying, aping, and travestying.