Act
Act verb - To present a portrayal or performance of.
End
End verb - To bring (an event) to a natural or appropriate stopping point.
How words are described
| good | good act | good end |
| similar | similar act | similar end |
| original | original act | original end |
| actual | actual act | actual end |
| Other adjectives: entire, real, violent, bad, ultimate, final, last. | ||
Common collocations
Both words in one sentence
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The last act is the shortest act, and wraps everything up when the hero(es) manage to pull off a victory at the very end in a final battle.
Source: Act Break - Got Me Doing It: In Dogg's Hamlet, Cahoot's Macbeth, the protagonist spends the first act surrounded by Strange Syntax Speakers, and by the end of the act, they've got him doing it too.
Source: Creator / Tom Stoppard -
However, at the end of Chapter 4, The Marquis suffers Death by Irony, and LeChuck reveals that his "good" act was just that, an act, and kills Guybrush.
Source: Hijacked by Ganon
Cite this Source
End and Act. (2016). Retrieved 2026, July 21, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/act/end
Act & End. N.p., 2016. Web. 21 Jul. 2026. <https://thesaurus.plus/related/act/end>.
End or Act. 2016. Accessed July 21, 2026. https://thesaurus.plus/related/act/end.
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