Acting and Deception

Acting

Acting noun - The performance of a part or role in a drama.

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Deception and acting are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Deception" instead a noun "Acting".

Nearby Words: act, action, active, acted, actor

Deception noun - The inclination or practice of misleading others through lies or trickery.

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Acting and deception are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Acting" instead a noun "Deception".

Nearby Words: deceive, deceit, deceptive, deceptively

human	human acting	human deception
good	good acting	good deception
full	full acting	full deception
original	original acting	original deception
Other adjectives: genuine, simple, actual, great, little, terrible, clever, important, new, later.

Later she appears under similar conditions and turns out to be Baba Yaga in disguise, acting as a spy for the Adversary (a deception which he saw through fairly quickly).

Source: Little Red Fighting Hood
Screwtape, a senior devil, continually advises Wormwood to rely on deception, jargon, and emotion to keep his human from acting morally and ethically.

Source: Romanticism Versus Enlightenment
Liu Kang also counts too, since he's killed off by Shang Tsung in Deadly Alliance and his body was resurrected by Raiden as a Jiangshi (Chinese zombie) monk in Deception, complete with a pair of enchanted Houan chains acting as a talisman.

Source: Chinese Vampire

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