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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | agree |
| Synonyms: | accord, check, cohere, conform, correspond, fit, harmonize, match, square, tally |
| Main Entry: | acquit |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | behave some way |
| Synonyms: | act, bear, carry, comport, conduct, deport, perform |
| Notes: | one is absolved of blame or responsibility but is acquitted of a charge, usually a crime |
| Main Entry: | act |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | behave in a certain way |
| Synonyms: | appear, behave, carry, carry oneself, carry out, comport, conduct, do, enact, execute, exert, function, give the appearance, go about, impress as, operate, perform, play part, react, represent oneself, seem, serve, strike, take on |
| Notes: | an act is the main dramatic unit and a scene is a division within an act |
| Main Entry: | cohere |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | agree, conform |
| Synonyms: | accord, be connected, be consistent, check, check out, comport, conform, correspond, dovetail, fit in, go, hang together, harmonize, hold, hold water, make sense, relate, square |
| Notes: | only things of a different nature can adhere; cohere is for things of the same kind that stick together and form a whole |
| Antonyms: | disagree, dispute, not conform |
| Main Entry: | consort |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | agree |
| Synonyms: | accord, coincide, comport, concur, conform, correspond, dovetail, harmonize, march, square, tally |
| Antonyms: | disagree |
| Main Entry: | do |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | act, behave |
| Synonyms: | acquit oneself, appear, bear, carry, come on like, comport, conduct, demean, deport, discourse, enact, fare, get along, get by, give, go on, impersonate, make out, manage, muddle through, operate, perform, personate, play, playact, portray, present, produce, put on*, quit, render the role, seem, stagger along |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | go on |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | continue |
| Synonyms: | act, advance, bear, behave, carry on, come about, comport, conduct, deport, endure, execute, go ahead, hang on, happen, hold on, keep on, last, occur, persevere, persist, proceed, ramble, stay, take place |
| Antonyms: | cease, halt, stop |
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