Chapter Acetic acid to Additional of A by Soule's Synonymes

Action, n.

1. Activity, spontaneous process, exercise, motion, movement, play.

2. Deed (viewed as requiring a continued exertion of power), performance, feat, exploit, achievement, procedure, proceeding, acting, turn.

3. Agency, operation, force, energy, influence, instrumentality, process.

4. Battle, engagement, conflict, contest, combat, rencontre, encounter, skirmish, brush, affair.

5. Gesticulation, gesture.

6. Acting, performing, performance, enacting, representing, representation, putting on the boards, playing.

7. Subject, fable, plot, series of events.

8. (Law.) Suit, lawsuit, process, case, prosecution.

Active, a.

1. Operative, operant, influential, efficient, effective, effectual, efficacious, living, vigorous, in action, in operation, in actual process, in force, in vitality, valid.

2. Busy, diligent, assiduous, industrious, indefatigable, unremitting, laborious, sedulous, notable, at work, hard at work, diligently employed, busily engaged.

3. Alert, nimble, agile, supple, brisk, dapper, stirring, smart, quick, prompt, ready, lively, sprightly, spirited. See spry.

4. Enterprising, energetic, strong, efficient, in earnest, vigorous, full of life, animated, ebullient, fervent.

5. Drastic (as medicine), powerful, potent, effective, efficacious.

6. (Gram.) Transitive.

Activity, n.

1. Action, exercise, mode of action, mode of exercise.

2. Alertness, agility, nimbleness, smartness, briskness, sprightliness, spryness, etc. See active, 3.