Act and Variation

Act

Act noun - A performance regularly presented by an individual or group.

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Variation and act are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Variation" instead a noun "Act".

Nearby Words: acting, acted

Variation noun - A distinct treatment of something (as a story or a play).

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Act and variation are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Act" instead a noun "Variation".

Nearby Words: variety, variable, varied, variance, variant

old	old act	old variation
good	good act	good variation
nice	nice act	nice variation
particular	particular act	particular variation
Other adjectives: similar, common, simple, popular, small, real, great, little, villainous, cruel, main, innocent, new, heroic, minor, occasional.

A variation of this is a super move... Fighting Clown: There are quite a number of characters that look and act silly but otherwise play like a normal one.

Source: Video Game / M.U.G.E.N
The first act of Kaiji involves the title character playing a card-based variation of rock-paper-scissors.

Source: Rock-Paper-Scissors
Lost did a variation: the episode "Confirmed Dead" introduced a character of the "rescue team" (although one appeared in the previous episode finale) in each act.

Source: Debut Queue

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