Nouns denoting acts or actions
- Bacchanalia
- an orgiastic festival in ancient Greece in honor of Dionysus (= Bacchus)
- exacerbation
- violent and bitter exasperation
- embalmment
- preservation (of a dead body) by treating with balsams and drugs and other chemicals
- trade protection
- the imposition of duties or quotas on imports in order to protect domestic industry against foreign competition
- heroics
- ostentatious or vainglorious or extravagant or melodramatic conduct
- smacker
- a very powerful blow with the fist
- bubble dance
- a solo dance similar to a fan dance except large balloons are used instead of fans
- Go Fish
- a card game for two players who try to assemble books of cards by asking the opponent for particular cards
- coin collecting
- the collection and study of money (and coins in particular)
- agitation
- the act of agitating something; causing it to move around (usually vigorously)
- scald
- the act of burning with steam or hot water
- outfitting
- the act of renovating and fitting out a ship
- bear hug
- a takeover bid so attractive that the directors of the target company must approve it or risk shareholder protest
- client-centered therapy
- a method of psychotherapy developed by Carl Rogers in which the client determines the focus and pace of each session
- greyhound racing
- the sport of racing greyhounds
- appropriation
- incorporation by joining or uniting
- shillyshally
- the act of procrastinating; putting off or delaying or defering an action to a later time
- resurvey
- a new survey or study
- annoyance
- the act of troubling or annoying someone
- abolishment
- the act of abolishing a system or practice or institution (especially abolishing slavery)
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