deed, feat, number, stunt, tour de force, trick

accomplishment, achievement, attainment, coup, success, triumph

act, action, deed, doing, feat, thing

accomplishment, achievement, attainment

adventure, experience

emprise, enterprise, initiative, undertaking

handiwork, performance, work

stunt, trick

activity, dealing

maneuver, measure, move, operation, procedure, proceeding, step, tactic

adventure, emprise, experience, gest (or geste), happening, time

escapade, lark, ploy

act, action, deed,

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into play, exercise" of the root word explicāre, out of which French and English have elaborated further meanings. The sense "relate, explain" of the Middle English verb is not paralleled in French and did not survive into Modern English.