pantomime

assuming characterization depiction dramatics dramatizing enacting enactment feigning hamming histrionics imitating imitation impersonation improvisation mime mimicry performance playing portrayal portraying posing posturing pretending pretense putting rendition seeming simulating stagecraft stooging theatre theatricals

play acting showing off

deception farce travesty

disguise fake make believe mimicry pageant parody pretension pretentiousness put on trick

honesty reality truth

action bow curtsy expression genuflection indication intimation mime motion nod reminder salute shrug sign signal token wave wink

body language high sign kinesics sign language

repose rest

action body language expression indication nod reminder salute sign signal token

bow curtsy genuflection gesticulation intimation mime shrug wave wink

high sign kinesics sign language

speech

caricature imitation mimicry mockery

act out flag indicate mime signal signalize use one's hands use sign language wave

speak

imitate impersonate pretend

be original differ oppose reverse

ape look like mirror resemble simulate

act burlesque caricature copy copycat ditto do echo enact fake impersonate mime parody parrot perform personate play ridicule sham travesty

do like go like make believe make fun of make like take off

be original direct fail halt idle prevent stop

flag gesticulate indicate mime motion sign signal wave

act out give the high sign use one's hands use sign language