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.