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| Main Entry: | plot |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | plan, scheme |
| Synonyms: | artifice, booby trap*, cabal, collusion, complicity, conspiracy, contrivance, design, device, fix, frame, game, intrigue, machination, maneuver, practice, ruse, scam, setup, stratagem, trick, connivance, conniving, covin, frame-up, little game |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | plot |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | plan, scheme |
| Synonyms: | angle, brew*, cabal, cogitate, collude, conceive, concoct, connive, conspire, contrive, cook up*, design, devise, draft, finagle, frame, hatch*, imagine, intrigue, lay*, machinate, maneuver, operate, outline, project, promote, rough out*, set up, sketch, wangle |
| Antonyms: | forget, neglect |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | plot |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | story line |
| Synonyms: | action, design, development, enactment, movement, narrative, outline, picture, progress, scenario, scene, scheme, story, structure, subject, suspense, theme, thread, events, incidents, unfolding |
| Main Entry: | plot |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | map out; draw |
| Synonyms: | calculate, chart, compute, draft, lay out, locate, mark, outline, put forward |
| Main Entry: | plot |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | tract of land |
| Synonyms: | acreage, allotment, area, division, ground, land, lot, parcel, patch, piece, spread, plat |
| Main Entry: | acre |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | piece of land, unit of area |
| Synonyms: | acreage, bit, estate, grounds, manor, plot, property |
| Main Entry: | acreage |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | land |
| Synonyms: | expanse, parcel, plot, property, real estate, back forty, holding |
| Main Entry: | angle for |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | attempt to get |
| Synonyms: | connive, conspire, contrive, fish for, hint, hunt, invite, maneuver, plan, plot, scheme, seek, solicit, strive, aim for, be after, cast about for, look for, try for |
| Main Entry: | chart |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | map, plan |
| Synonyms: | blueprint, diagram, graph, outline, plot, rough draft, scheme, sketch, table, plat, tabulation |
| Main Entry: | chart |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | plan, map out |
| Synonyms: | arrange, block out, blueprint, cast, delineate, design, devise, draft, graph, lay out, outline, plot, project, shape, sketch |
| Main Entry: | chicanery |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | deception, trickery |
| Synonyms: | artifice, cheating, dishonesty, dodge, double-dealing*, duplicity, feint, fraud, gambit, hanky-panky*, intrigue, machination, maneuver, plot, ploy, ruse, skullduggery, sophistry, stratagem, subterfuge, chicane, deviousness, double-crossing, fourberie, furtiveness, sharp practice, surreptitiousness, underhandedness, wiles |
| Notes: | duplicity implies double-dealing while chicanery suggests trickery and wiliness |
| Antonyms: | honesty, truthfulness, forthrightness |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | collusion |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | secret understanding, often with intent to defraud |
| Synonyms: | bill of goods*, cahoots*, complicity, con game*, conspiracy, craft, deceit, dodge, double-cross, flimflam*, graft, guilt, gyp, intrigue, plot, racket, scam, scheme, shell game*, skunk*, sting*, trick, whitewash, bait and switch, bunco, connivance, diddling, fast shuffle, flam, fradulent artifice, guiltiness |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | concoct |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | formulate, think up |
| Synonyms: | batch*, brew*, compound, contrive, cook up, create, design, devise, discover, dream up, envisage, envision, fabricate, frame*, hatch, invent, make up, mature, originate, plan, plot, prepare, project, scheme, vamp, ad lib, prefab, slap together, throw together |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | conspiracy |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | collusion in plan |
| Synonyms: | cabal, confederacy, disloyalty, fix, frame*, game, intrigue, league, machination, plot, practice, scheme, sedition, treachery, treason, trick, trickery, complot, connivance, countermine, counterplot, covin, hookup, little game, perfidy, put-up job, treacherousness |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | cook up |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | devise |
| Synonyms: | arrange, concoct, contrive, dream up, fabricate, falsify, formulate, frame, hatch, improvise, invent, make up, plan, plot, prepare, scheme, vamp |
| Main Entry: | coup |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | achievement, often by maneuver |
| Synonyms: | accomplishment, action, coup d'état, coup de mâitre, deed, exploit, feat, overthrow, plot, revolution, stratagem, stroke, stroke of genius, stunt, successful stroke, tour de force, upset |
| Main Entry: | delineate |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | describe; outline |
| Synonyms: | characterize, chart, define, depict, detail, draft, draw, figure, lay out, limn, mark, plot, portray, represent, trace, sketch out |
| Main Entry: | devise |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | conceive, dream up |
| Synonyms: | ad-lib, arrange, blueprint*, brainstorm*, cast, chart, cogitate, come up with, concoct, construct, contrive, cook up*, craft, create, design, discover, forge, form, formulate, frame*, get off*, hatch, head trip, imagine, improvise, intrigue, invent, machinate, make up, mastermind*, plan, play it by ear*, plot, prepare, project, scheme, shape, spark, vamp, whip up*, work out, dope out*, fake it, think up, throw together, trump up |
| Antonyms: | borrow |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | dodge |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | trick, feint |
| Synonyms: | contrivance, device, machination, method, plan, plot, ploy, ruse, scheme, stratagem, strategy, subterfuge, wile |
| Main Entry: | engineer |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | devise; bring about |
| Synonyms: | angle, arrange, cause, come up with, con, conceive, concoct, contrive, control, cook*, create, direct, doctor, effect, encompass, finagle*, jockey*, machinate, manage, maneuver, manipulate, negotiate, operate, organize, originate, plan, plant, plot, rig*, scam, scheme, set up, superintend, supervise, swing, upstage, wangle, work, play games, pull strings, pull wires, put one on, put one over, put over, put through |
* = informal/non-formal usage
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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