8
pro tem(adjective, continue, substitute, temporary)
8
working(verb, adjective, working)
7
doing(verb, action, agency, behaving, venturing)
7
acknowledging(adjective, feature, characteristic, detail)
7
affecting(adjective, feature, characteristic, detail)
7
provisional(adjective, continue, limited, unsettled, substitute)
7
replying(adjective, feature, characteristic, detail)
7
responding(adjective, feature, characteristic, detail)
7
responsive(adjective, feature, characteristic, detail)
7
returning(adjective, feature, characteristic, detail)
6
active
6
pantomime(noun, assumption, entertaining, drama, dissimulation)
6
practicing(verb, adjective, behaving)
6
show(noun, act, part, character, honest)
5
dramatizing(verb, behaving, dramatizing)
5
masquerade(noun, trick, honest, display, true)
5
performance(noun, act, person, part, character)
5
play(verb, act, presentation, depiction, recital)
5
pro tempore(expression, adjective, idiom)
5
simulation(noun, honest, display, true, sham)
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