1) a person who acts on the stage or TV, or in films (actor)

2) a woman who acts on the stage or TV, or in films (actress)

3) a person who acts in drama, performs music etc, for pleasure only and not professionally (amateur)

4) acts as a chaperon (chaperone)

5) to interpret the meaning of (words, statements, acts etc) (construe)

6) (an artificially produced) state like deep sleep in which a person's acts may be controlled by another person (hypnosis)

7) of, producing, inflammation; to produce anger, acts of violence etc (inflammatory)

8) a period of time between acts of a play, parts of a concert etc (interval)

9) an action, event etc that acts as an introduction (to something more important) (prelude)

10) a clergyman of a Christian Church; (of non-Christian religions) a person trained to perform special acts of religion, medicine etc (priest)