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Perform

To carry through; to bring to completion; to achieve; to accomplish; to execute; to do.

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Accomplish 76% connected

To complete, as time or distance.

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Act 76% connected

That which is done or doing; the exercise of power, or the effect, of which power exerted is the cause; a performance; a deed.

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Action 76% connected

A process or condition of acting or moving, as opposed to rest; the doing of something; exertion of power or force, as when one body acts on another;…

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Execute 76% connected

To follow out or through to the end; to carry out into complete effect; to complete; to finish; to effect; to perform.

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Fulfil 76% connected

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Fulfill 76% connected

To fill up; to make full or complete.

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Move 76% connected

To cause to change place or posture in any manner; to set in motion; to carry, convey, draw, or push from one place to another; to impel; to stir; as…

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Re-create 76% connected

To create or form anew.

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Recreate 76% connected

To give fresh life to; to reanimate; to revive; especially, to refresh after wearying toil or anxiety; to relieve; to cheer; to divert; to amuse; to…

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Manner of action 39

Act 76% connected

That which is done or doing; the exercise of power, or the effect, of which power exerted is the cause; a performance; a deed.

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Appear 76% connected

To come or be in sight; to be in view; to become visible.

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Audition 76% connected

The act of hearing or listening; hearing.

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Carry 76% connected

To convey or transport in any manner from one place to another; to bear; -- often with away or off.

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Church 76% connected

A building set apart for Christian worship.

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Conduct 76% connected

The act or method of conducting; guidance; management.

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Cut 76% connected

of Cut

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Debut 76% connected

A beginning or first attempt; hence, a first appearance before the public, as of an actor or public speaker.

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Declaim 76% connected

To speak rhetorically; to make a formal speech or oration; to harangue; specifically, to recite a speech, poem, etc., in public as a rhetorical exerc…

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Direct 76% connected

Straight; not crooked, oblique, or circuitous; leading by the short or shortest way to a point or end; as, a direct line; direct means.

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Extemporize 76% connected

To speak extempore; especially, to discourse without special preparation; to make an offhand address.

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Function 76% connected

The act of executing or performing any duty, office, or calling; per formance.

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Give 76% connected

To bestow without receiving a return; to confer without compensation; to impart, as a possession; to grant, as authority or permission; to yield up o…

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Go 76% connected

Gone.

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Improvise 76% connected

To compose, recite, or sing extemporaneously, especially in verse; to extemporize; also, to play upon an instrument, or to act, extemporaneously.

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Interlude 76% connected

A short entertainment exhibited on the stage between the acts of a play, or between the play and the afterpiece, to relieve the tedium of waiting.

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Interpret 76% connected

To explain or tell the meaning of; to expound; to translate orally into intelligible or familiar language or terms; to decipher; to define; -- applie…

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Lead 76% connected

One of the elements, a heavy, pliable, inelastic metal, having a bright, bluish color, but easily tarnished. It is both malleable and ductile, though…

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Make 76% connected

A companion; a mate; often, a husband or a wife.

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Misdo 76% connected

To do wrongly.

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Officiate 76% connected

To act as an officer in performing a duty; to transact the business of an office or public trust; to conduct a public service.

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Operate 76% connected

To perform a work or labor; to exert power or strengh, physical or mechanical; to act.

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Play 76% connected

To engage in sport or lively recreation; to exercise for the sake of amusement; to frolic; to spot.

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Ply 76% connected

To bend.

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Practice 76% connected

Frequently repeated or customary action; habitual performance; a succession of acts of a similar kind; usage; habit; custom; as, the practice of risi…

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Practise 76% connected

See Practice.

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Premier 76% connected

First; chief; principal; as, the premier place; premier minister.

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Rap 76% connected

A lay or skein containing 120 yards of yarn.

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Recite 76% connected

To repeat, as something already prepared, written down, committed to memory, or the like; to deliver from a written or printed document, or from reco…

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Rehearse 76% connected

To repeat, as what has been already said; to tell over again; to recite.

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Render 76% connected

One who rends.

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Run 76% connected

of Run

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Scamp 76% connected

A rascal; a swindler; a rogue.

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Serenade 76% connected

Music sung or performed in the open air at nights; -- usually applied to musical entertainments given in the open air at night, especially by gentlem…

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Solo 76% connected

A tune, air, strain, or a whole piece, played by a single person on an instrument, or sung by a single voice.

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Star 76% connected

One of the innumerable luminous bodies seen in the heavens; any heavenly body other than the sun, moon, comets, and nebulae.

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Stunt 76% connected

To hinder from growing to the natural size; to prevent the growth of; to stint, to dwarf; as, to stunt a child; to stunt a plant.

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Turn 76% connected

To cause to move upon a center, or as if upon a center; to give circular motion to; to cause to revolve; to cause to move round, either partially, wh…

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Work 76% connected

Exertion of strength or faculties; physical or intellectual effort directed to an end; industrial activity; toil; employment; sometimes, specifically…

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Doer 74% connected

One who does; one performs or executes; one who is wont and ready to act; an actor; an agent.

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Doer 74% connected

One who does; one performs or executes; one who is wont and ready to act; an actor; an agent.

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Performance 74% connected

The act of performing; the carrying into execution or action; execution; achievement; accomplishment; representation by action; as, the performance o…

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Performance 74% connected

The act of performing; the carrying into execution or action; execution; achievement; accomplishment; representation by action; as, the performance o…

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Performer 74% connected

One who performs, accomplishes, or fulfills; as, a good promiser, but a bad performer; especially, one who shows skill and training in any art; as, a…

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Performer 74% connected

One who performs, accomplishes, or fulfills; as, a good promiser, but a bad performer; especially, one who shows skill and training in any art; as, a…

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Synonym 1

Execute 92% connected

To follow out or through to the end; to carry out into complete effect; to complete; to finish; to effect; to perform.

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