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• act involuntarily, act reflexively go
  act in an uncontrolled manner
  
• fall over backwards, bend over backwards go
  try very hard to please someone
  
• presume go
  take liberties or act with too much confidence
  
• vulgarize, vulgarise go
  act in a vulgar manner
  
• optimize, optimise go
  act as an optimist and take a sunny view of the world
  
• quack go
  act as a medical quack or a charlatan
  
• menace go
  act in a threatening manner
  
• make go
  act in a certain way so as to acquire
  
• swagger, bluster, swash go
  act in an arrogant, overly self-assured, or conceited manner
  
• freeze go
  suddenly behave coldly and formally
  
• wanton go
  behave extremely cruelly and brutally
  
• romanticize go
  act in a romantic way
  
• sentimentalise, sentimentalize, sentimentize, sentimentise go
  act in a sentimental way or indulge in sentimental thoughts or expression
  
• bungle go
  spoil by behaving clumsily or foolishly
  
• play, toy go
  engage in an activity as if it were a game rather than take it seriously
  
• act, play, act as go
  pretend to have certain qualities or state of mind
  
• stooge go
  act as a stooge, in a compliant or subordinate manner
  
• joke, jest go
  act in a funny or teasing way
  
• piffle go
  act in a trivial or ineffective way
  
• make go
  behave in a certain way
  
• make as if go
  begin or appear to begin an action
  
• snap, break down, lose it go
  lose control of one's emotions
  
• dally, dawdle go
  waste time
  
• backslap go
  display excessive cordiality (towards)
  
• hugger mugger go
  act stealthily or secretively
  
• sauce go
  behave saucily or impudently towards
  
• footle go
  act foolishly, as by talking nonsense
  
• trifle, frivol go
  act frivolously
  
• swell, puff up go
  become filled with pride, arrogance, or anger
  
• follow go
  accept and follow the leadership or command or guidance of
  
• relax, loosen up go
  become less tense, less formal, or less restrained, and assume a friendlier manner
  
• storm, ramp, rage go
  behave violently, as if in state of a great anger