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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | progress, deed |
| Synonyms: | act, action, alteration, change, maneuver, measure, modification, motion, movement, ploy, procedure, proceeding, shift, step, stir, stirring, stratagem, stroke, turn, variation |
| Antonyms: | idleness, inaction, inactivity, regression, stagnation |
| Main Entry: | move |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | motivate, influence |
| Synonyms: | activate, actuate, advocate, affect, agitate, bring, bring up, budge, carry, cause, convert, draw up, drive, excite, get going, give rise to, impel, impress, incite, induce, inspire, inspirit, instigate, introduce, lead, operate, persuade, play on, prevail upon, prompt, propel, propose, push, put forward, quicken, recommend, rouse, shift, shove, start, stimulate, stir, strike, submit, suggest, sway, touch, tug at, turn, urge, work on |
| Antonyms: | discourage, dishearten, dissuade |
| Main Entry: | act |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | something done |
| Synonyms: | accomplishment, achievement, action, deed, doing, execution, exploit, feat, move, operation, performance, step, thing, undertaking |
| Notes: | an act is the main dramatic unit and a scene is a division within an act |
| Antonyms: | cessation, idleness, inactivity, inertia, quiet, quiet, repose, rest, stoppage, suspension |
| Main Entry: | act |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | do something |
| Synonyms: | accomplish, achieve, begin, carry on, carry out, consummate, cook, create, develop, do, do a number, do one's thing, enforce, execute, function, get in there, go about, go for broke, go for it, go in for, go that route, go to town, intrude, knock off, labor, make progress, maneuver, move, officiate, operate, percolate*, perk*, perpetrate, persevere, persist, practice, preside, pursue, respond, serve, take effect, take part, take steps, take up, transort, undertake, work out |
| Notes: | an act is the main dramatic unit and a scene is a division within an act |
| Antonyms: | abstain, cease, discontinue, give up, halt, hesitate, idle, refrain, stop |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | action |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | individual deed |
| Synonyms: | accomplishment, achievement, act, blow, commission, dealings, doing, effort, enterprise, execution, exercise, exertion, exploit, feat, handiwork, maneuver, manipulation, move, operation, performance, procedure, step, stroke, thrust, transaction, undertaking |
| Main Entry: | activate |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | initiate something; start a function |
| Synonyms: | actify, actuate, arouse, call up, energize, impel, mobilize, motivate, move, prompt, propel, rouse, set in motion, start, stimulate, stir, switch on, take out of mothballs, trigger, turn on |
| Notes: | when something is activated, it is made active; when something is actuated, it is moved to take action (or produce a consequence) to actuate is a general word meaning 'to set working' and has more to do with mechanical action - while activate is used mainly in scientific expressions |
| Antonyms: | arrest, stop |
| Main Entry: | actuate |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | start a function or action, motivate |
| Synonyms: | activate, animate, arouse, cause, drive, egg on, energize, excite, fire up, impel, incite, induce, influence, inspire, instigate, key up, mobilize, motivate, move, prompt, propel, put up to, quicken, rouse, spur, stimulate, turn on, work into lather, work up |
| Notes: | when something is activated, it is made active; when something is actuated, it is moved to take action (or produce a consequence) to actuate is a general word meaning 'to set working' and has more to do with mechanical action - while activate is used mainly in scientific expressions |
| Antonyms: | impede, stop |
| Main Entry: | advance(s) |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | desirous pursuit of someone |
| Synonyms: | approach, move, overture, proposal, proposition, suggestion |
| Antonyms: | disinterest, ignorance |
| Main Entry: | advise |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | offer recommendation |
| Synonyms: | admonish, advocate, caution, charge, commend, counsel, direct, dissuade, encourage, enjoin, exhort, forewarn, give a pointer, give a tip, guide, instruct, kibitz, level with, move, opine, point out, preach, prepare, prescribe, prompt, put bug in ear, put in two cents, recommend, steer, suggest, tout, update, urge, warn |
| Notes: | advise (verb) means 'to offer advice to or counsel'; advice (noun) is an opinion about what could or should be done about a situation or problem |
| Antonyms: | betray, deceive, delude, fool, lie, pretend, trick |
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