Acts

Gravity acts on everything in the universe.

Hamlet acts as if he were insane.

Who acts Hamlet?

A teenager sometimes acts like a baby.

Tobacco acts on the brain.

The drug acts like magic.

That magazine article exposed his devilish acts to the full light of day.

John acts like Helen's guardian.

This drug acts against headache.

What these acts said was that it was illegal to pay someone in anything other than coin of the realm.