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THESPIAN

actor

The meaning of the word thespian is actor.

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etymologythe history of a linguistic form (such as a word) shown by tracing its development since its earliest recorded occurrence in the language where it is found, by tracing its transmission from one language to another, by analyzing it into its component parts, by identifying its cognates in other languages, or by tracing it and its cognates to a common ancestral form in an ancestral language
sticklerone who insists on exactness or completeness in the observance of something
pass_offpresent falsely; represent falsely to be
atrocitya shockingly bad or atrocious act, object, or situation
piedof two or more colors in blotches
oustto remove from or dispossess of property or position by legal action, by force, or by the compulsion of necessity
petrifyto convert (organic matter) into stone or a substance of stony hardness by the infiltration of water and the deposition of dissolved mineral matter
morosehaving a sullen and gloomy disposition
havocwide and general destruction : devastation
ductilecapable of being drawn out (see draw