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playactor

[pley-akt]

play·act

[pley-akt]
verb (used without object)
1.
to engage in make-believe.
2.
to be insincere or affected in speech, manner, etc.: It's hard to get away with playacting with members of one's own family.
3.
to perform in a play.
verb (used with object)
4.
to dramatize (something): They playacted the movements of a burglar.

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Playactor is always a great word to know.
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a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.
the offspring of a zebra and a donkey.

Origin:
1895–1900; back formation from playacting; see play, act, -ing1

play·act·ing, noun
play·ac·tor, noun
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playactor

noun
an actor who travels around the country presenting plays [syn: barnstormer
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