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| Main Entry: | enactment |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | playacting |
| Synonyms: | achievement, acting, depiction, execution, impersonation, performance, personification, portrayal, representation, personation, playing |
| Main Entry: | enactment |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | law; authorization |
| Synonyms: | command, commandment, decree, dictate, edict, execution, legislation, order, ordinance, proclamation, ratification, regulation, statute |
| Antonyms: | block, hindrance, stop, veto, disallowance |
| Main Entry: | achievement |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | something completed successfully; goal reached |
| Synonyms: | accomplishment, acquisition, act, attainment, completion, conquest, consummation, contrivance, creation, deed, effort, enactment, execution, exploit, feat, fulfillment, hit, masterpiece, performance, production, realization, stroke, success, tour de force, triumph, victory, acquirement, actualization, effectuation, encompassment |
| Antonyms: | defeat, failure, forfeit, injury, miscue, misfortune, neglect, negligence |
| Main Entry: | acting |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | entertaining, performing |
| Synonyms: | assuming, depiction, enactment, histrionics, imitating, imitation, impersonation, improvisation, mime, mimicry, performance, portrayal, pretending, pretense, rendition, seeming, theatre, characterization, dramatics, dramatizing, enacting, feigning, hamming, pantomime, play acting, playing, portraying, posing, posturing, putting, showing off, simulating, stagecraft, stooging, theatricals |
| Main Entry: | decree |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | mandate, legal order |
| Synonyms: | act, announcement, behest, bidding, charge, command, commandment, declaration, dictum, direction, directive, edict, enactment, injunction, instruction, judgment, law, order, ordinance, precept, prescript, proclamation, pronouncement, rap*, regulation, rule, ruling, say, statute, charging, decretum, promulgation, the riot act, the word, ukase |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | edict |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | pronouncement, order |
| Synonyms: | act, canon, command, commandment, decree, dictate, dictum, directive, enactment, fiat, injunction, instrument, judgment, law, mandate, manifesto, ordinance, precept, prescript, proclamation, regulation, rule, ruling, statute, writ, decretum, pronunciamento, ukase |
| Notes: | an edict is a formal or authoritative proclamation; an addict is someone who is physiologically dependent on a substance or someone who is a devoted supporter or fan |
| Main Entry: | legislation |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | law of a government |
| Synonyms: | act, bill, charter, constitution, enactment, measure, prescription, regulation, ruling, statute, codification, lawmaking |
| Main Entry: | ordinance |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | law, rule |
| Synonyms: | authorization, canon, code, command, decree, dictum, direction, edict, enactment, fiat, mandate, order, precept, prescript, regulation, ruling, statute, reg, ukase |
| Main Entry: | statute |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | rule, law |
| Synonyms: | act, assize, bill, canon, decree, edict, enactment, measure, ordinance, precept, regulation, decretum |
| Main Entry: | impersonation |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | imitation |
| Synonyms: | acting, enactment, pose, role |
| Main Entry: | ratification |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | acceptance |
| Synonyms: | approval, authorization, confirmation, enactment, permission, sanction |
| Main Entry: | representation |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | description |
| Synonyms: | copy, delegation, delineation, depiction, design, duplicate, enactment, exhibition, illustration, image, imitation, impersonation, impression, likeness, narration, personification, portrayal, reproduction, adumbration |
| Main Entry: | adoption |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | choosing or taking something as one's own |
| Synonyms: | acceptance, approbation, appropriation, approval, assumption, choice, confirmation, enactment, endorsement, following, maintenance, ratification, selection, support, embracement, embracing, espousal, taking on, taking over, taking up |
| Antonyms: | pass, rejection, repudiation |
| Main Entry: | command |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | directive, instruction |
| Synonyms: | act, ban, behest, bidding, call, canon, caveat, charge, citation, commandment, decree, demand, dictate, dictation, dictum, direction, duty, edict, enactment, fiat, imperative, imposition, injunction, law, mandate, notification, obligation, order, ordinance, precept, prescript, proclamation, prohibition, regulation, request, requirement, requisition, responsibility, rule, subpoena, summons, ultimatum, warrant, will, word, writ, adjuration, devoir, exaction, interdiction, proscription |
| Antonyms: | contradiction, countermand, opposition, recall, reversal, revocation |
| Main Entry: | establishment |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | organization; creation |
| Synonyms: | enactment, endowment, formation, foundation, founding, inauguration, installation, institution, formulation, setting up |
| Main Entry: | law |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | rules of a government, society |
| Synonyms: | act, assize, behest, bidding, canon, case, caveat, charge, charter, code, command, commandment, constitution, covenant, decision, decree, demand, dictate, edict, enactment, equity, injunction, institute, instruction, legislation, mandate, measure, notice, order, ordinance, precedent, precept, prescript, prescription, regulation, requirement, ruling, statute, subpoena, summons, warrant, writ, bylaw, decretum, divestiture, due process, garnishment, jurisprudence, reg |
| Antonyms: | breaking, lawlessness, transgression, violation |
| Main Entry: | act |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | legislative document |
| Synonyms: | amendment, announcement, bill, clause, code, commitment, decree, edict, enactment, judgment, law, measure, order, ordinance, resolution, statute, subpoena, summons, verdict, warrant, writ |
| Main Entry: | execution |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | carrying out of a task |
| Synonyms: | accomplishment, achievement, administration, completion, consummation, delivery, discharge, doing, effect, enactment, enforcement, nuts and bolts*, operation, performance, prosecution, realization, style, fulfilling, implementation, rendering |
| Antonyms: | disregard, failure, ignorance, neglect, abandoning, forgetting, leaving |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | plot |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | story line |
| Synonyms: | action, design, development, enactment, movement, narrative, outline, picture, progress, scenario, scene, scheme, story, structure, subject, suspense, theme, thread, events, incidents, unfolding |
| Main Entry: | measure |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | bill, law |
| Synonyms: | act, enactment, project, proposal, proposition, resolution, statute |
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