Actor and Fool

Actor

Actor noun - One who acts professionally (as in a play, movie, or television show).

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Fool and actor are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Fool" instead a noun "Actor".

Nearby Words: acting, actress

Fool noun - A person who lacks good sense or judgment.

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Actor and fool are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Actor" instead a noun "Fool".

old	old actor	old fool
original	original actor	original fool
real	real actor	real fool
big	big actor	big fool
Other adjectives: young, famous, former, comic.

Amusingly enough, one episode has Homer (voiced by the same actor) trying to fake a Scottish accent to fool Willie.

Source: Fake Scot
Leoncavallo's opera Pagliacci: Canio, a Commedia dell'arte actor who plays a cuckolded fool on stage, finds himself cuckolded — but he refuses to be the fool.

Source: Plot Parallel
This is not the same principle as Ensemble Dark Horse, because the character is often played by an established actor, nor is it the same as Dead Star Walking, because the intent is not to fool you into thinking that the actor will appear more often.

Source: One-Scene Wonder

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