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intrigue

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Main Entry: intrigue
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: scheme

Synonyms:

artifice, cabal, chicanery, collusion, complication, conspiracy, contrivance, deal, design, dodge, double-dealing, fix, frame-up, fraud, game, graft, hookup, little game, machination, maneuver, manipulation, plan, plot, ruse, stratagem, trickery, wile
Main Entry: intrigue
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: love affair

Synonyms:

affair, amour, attachment, case, flirtation, infatuation, interlude, intimacy, liaison, romance
Main Entry: intrigue
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: arouse curiosity

Synonyms:

appeal, attract, bait, captivate, charm, con, delight, draw, enchant, entertain, excite, fascinate, grab, hook, interest, lead on, mousetrap, pique, please, pull, rivet, tickle, titillate, tout

Antonyms:

bore
Main Entry: intrigue
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: plot

Synonyms:

angle, be in cahoots, cogitate, collude, connive, conspire, contrive, cook up, devise, finagle, frame up, machinate, maneuver, operate, plan, promote, scheme, set up*, work hand in glove

Antonyms:

forget, neglect
Main Entry: affair
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: illicit sexual relationship

Synonyms:

affaire, amour, carrying on, extracurricular activity, fling, goings-on, hanky-panky, intimacy, intrigue, liaison, love, playing around, relationship, rendezvous, romance, thing together, two-timing
Main Entry: appeal
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: attract, interest

Synonyms:

allure, beguile, captivate, catch the eye, charm, enchant, engage, entice, fascinate, intrigue, invite, please, tantalize, tempt

Antonyms:

disgust, turn away, turn off
Main Entry: attract
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: draw attention

Synonyms:

allure, appeal to, bait, beckon, beguile, bewitch, bring, captivate, charm, come on, court, drag, draw, enchant, endear, engage, enthrall, entice, entrance, exert influence, fascinate, freak out, give the come-on, go over big, grab, hook, induce, interest, intrigue, inveigle, invite, kill, knock dead, knock out, lure, magnetize, make a hit with, mousetrap, pull, rope in, score, seduce, send*, slay, solicit, spellbind, steer, suck in, sweep off one's feet, tempt, turn on, vamp, wile, wow*

Antonyms:

repel, repulse
Main Entry: captivate
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: attract, enchant

Synonyms:

allure, beguile, bewitch, charm, dazzle, delight, draw, enamour, enrapture, enslave, ensnare, entertain, enthrall, entrance, fascinate, gratify, grip, hold, hook, hypnotize, infatuate, intrigue, lure, magnetize, make a hit with, mesmerize, please, rope in, seduce, spellbind, sweep off one's feet, take, turn one on, vamp, wile, win

Antonyms:

disgust, disillusion, offend, repel, repulse
Main Entry: chicanery
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: deception, trickery

Synonyms:

artifice, cheating, chicane, deviousness, dishonesty, dodge, double-crossing, double-dealing, duplicity, feint, fourberie, fraud, furtiveness, gambit, hanky-panky, intrigue, machination, maneuver, plot, ploy, ruse, sharp practice, skullduggery, sophistry, stratagem, subterfuge, surreptitiousness, underhandedness, wiles
Notes: duplicity implies double-dealing while chicanery suggests trickery and wiliness

Antonyms:

forthrightness, honesty, truthfulness
Main Entry: collusion
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: secret understanding, often with intent to defraud

Synonyms:

bait and switch, bill of goods, bunco, cahoots, complicity, con game, connivance, conspiracy, craft, deceit, diddling, dodge, double-cross, fast shuffle, flam, flimflam, fradulent artifice, graft, guilt, guiltiness, gyp, intrigue, plot, racket, scam, scheme, shell game, skunk, sting*, trick, whitewash
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