Nouns denoting acts or actions
- salting
- the act of adding salt to food
- repatriation
- the act of returning to the country of origin
- anagrams
- a game whose object is to form words from a group of randomly chosen letters
- jumping
- the act of participating in an athletic competition in which you must jump
- twist
- social dancing in which couples vigorously twist their hips and arms in time to the music; was popular in the 1960s
- ambassadorship
- the post of ambassador
- Russian Revolution
- the coup d'etat by the Bolsheviks under Lenin in November 1917 that led to a period of civil war which ended in victory for the Bolsheviks in 1922
- inside job
- some transgression committed with the assistance of someone trusted by the victim
- attempt
- earnest and conscientious activity intended to do or accomplish something
- echolalia
- (psychiatry) mechanical and meaningless repetition of the words of another person (as in schizophrenia)
- duty
- the social force that binds you to the courses of action demanded by that force
- walk-through
- the act of walking in order to view something
- inside loop
- a loop consisting of a climb followed by inverted flight followed by a dive that returns to horizontal flight
- downshift
- a change to a lower gear in a car or bicycle
- custom
- habitual patronage
- round
- the usual activities in your day
- single
- a base hit on which the batter stops safely at first base
- ruggedization
- the act of making a piece of equipment rugged (strengthening to resist wear or abuse)
- resisting arrest
- physical efforts to oppose a lawful arrest; the resistance is classified as assault and battery upon the person of the police officer attempting to make the arrest
- default
- loss due to not showing up
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