Act synonyms | Another word for act

1. take action

• Be active
• Be busy
• Be employed
• Do something
• Go ahead
• Make a move
• Make headway
• Make progress
• Move
• Proceed
• React
• Take action
• Take measures
• Take steps
• Take the initiative
• Get moving

2. behave

• Acquit oneself
• Bear oneself
• Behave
• Comport oneself
• Conduct oneself
• Function
• Perform
• React
• Deport oneself

3. affect

• Affect
• Alter
• Change
• Condition
• Exert influence on
• Have an effect on
• Have an impact on
• Impact on
• Influence
• Modify
• Transform
• Work on
• Control

4. perform

• Appear
• Be an actor
• Be an actress
• Be one of the cast
• Perform
• Play a part
• Play
• Take part
• Tread the boards

5. pretend

• Bluff
• Dissemble
• Dissimulate
• Fake
• Feign
• Masquerade
• Play-act
• Pose
• Posture
• Pretend
• Put it on
• Sham
• Kid

6. deed

• Achievement
• Action
• Deed
• Effort
• Enterprise
• Exploit
• Feat
• Gesture
• Manoeuvre
• Move
• Operation
• Performance
• Stunt
• Undertaking
• Venture
• Accomplishment

7. pretence

• A put-on
• Affectation
• Appearance
• Bluff
• Charade
• Counterfeit
• Dissemblance
• Dissimulation
• Fabrication
• Facade
• Fake
• False display
• Falsification
• Feigning
• Front
• Guise
• Hoax
• Make-believe
• Masquerade
• Play-acting
• Pose
• Posing
• Posture
• Posturing
• Pretence
• Sham
• Shamming
• Show
• Subterfuge
• A put-up job

8. law

• Act of Parliament
• Bill
• Canon
• Command
• Commandment
• Decree
• Dictate
• Dictum
• Direction
• Edict
• Enactment
• Fiat
• Judgement
• Law
• Legislation
• Mandate
• Measure
• Ordinance
• Proclamation
• Requirement
• Resolution
• Rule
• Ruling
• Statute
• Stipulation
• Ukase
• Pronunciamento

9. division

• Bit
• Component
• Division
• Episode
• Part
• Passage
• Portion
• Section
• Segment
• Subsection
• Chapter

10. performance

• Dance
• Entertainment
• Item
• Number
• Performance
• Piece
• Playlet
• Presentation
• Production
• Routine
• Show
• Sketch
• Skit
• Song
• Turn
• Gig