N. agency, operation, force, working, strain, # function, office, maintenance, exercise, work,
swing, play,
interworking,
interaction,
procurement,
causation,
instrumentality, influence, action, modus operandi, quickening power, maintaining power, sustaining power, home stroke
V. be -in action,
operate, work, act, act upon, perform, play, support,
sustain, strain, maintain, take effect,
quicken, strike, come play, come bring into operation, have play, have free play, bring to bear upon
Adj. operative, efficient,
efficacious, practical,
effectual, at work, on foot, acting, in operation, in force, in action, in play, in exercise, acted upon, wrought upon
Adv. by the -agency, - of, through, by means of
Phr. "i myself must mix with action lest i wither by despair"
