An Actor Prepares Glossary

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Acquainted

To know someone or have had some sort of a relationship with them

Harbour

Keeping a thought to oneself

Longingly

Yearning for something

Pity

Feeling of sorrow and compassion for someone else

Assuage

To relieve an unpleasant feeling

Affinities

A natural ability to understand someone/something

Stasis

State of inactivity

Pivot

To turn

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