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Plot

A small extent of ground; a plat; as, a garden plot.

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Narrower term 8

Action 76% connected

A process or condition of acting or moving, as opposed to rest; the doing of something; exertion of power or force, as when one body acts on another;…

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Bed 76% connected

An article of furniture to sleep or take rest in or on; a couch. Specifically: A sack or mattress, filled with some soft material, in distinction fro…

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Cabal 76% connected

Tradition; occult doctrine. See Cabala

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Conspiracy 76% connected

A combination of men for an evil purpose; an agreement, between two or more persons, to commit a crime in concert, as treason; a plot.

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Counterplot 76% connected

To oppose, as another plot, by plotting; to attempt to frustrate, as a stratagem, by stratagem.

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Garden 76% connected

A piece of ground appropriated to the cultivation of herbs, fruits, flowers, or vegetables.

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Intrigue 76% connected

To form a plot or scheme; to contrive to accomplish a purpose by secret artifice.

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Machination 76% connected

The act of machinating.

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Manner of action 10

Cabal 76% connected

Tradition; occult doctrine. See Cabala

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Complot 76% connected

A plotting together; a confederacy in some evil design; a conspiracy.

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Conjure 76% connected

To call on or summon by a sacred name or in solemn manner; to implore earnestly; to adjure.

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Connive 76% connected

To open and close the eyes rapidly; to wink.

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Conspire 76% connected

To make an agreement, esp. a secret agreement, to do some act, as to commit treason or a crime, or to do some unlawful deed; to plot together.

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Counterplot 76% connected

To oppose, as another plot, by plotting; to attempt to frustrate, as a stratagem, by stratagem.

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graph 76% connected

A diagram representing data or a set of equations

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Intrigue 76% connected

To form a plot or scheme; to contrive to accomplish a purpose by secret artifice.

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Machinate 76% connected

To plan; to contrive; esp., to form a scheme with the purpose of doing harm; to contrive artfully; to plot.

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Scheme 76% connected

A combination of things connected and adjusted by design; a system.

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Chart 76% connected

A sheet of paper, pasteboard, or the like, on which information is exhibited, esp. when the information is arranged in tabular form; as, an historica…

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Contrive 76% connected

To form by an exercise of ingenuity; to devise; to invent; to design; to plan.

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Design 76% connected

To draw preliminary outline or main features of; to sketch for a pattern or model; to delineate; to trace out; to draw.

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Draw 76% connected

To cause to move continuously by force applied in advance of the thing moved; to pull along; to haul; to drag; to cause to follow.

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graph 76% connected

A diagram representing data or a set of equations

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Map 76% connected

A representation of the surface of the earth, or of some portion of it, showing the relative position of the parts represented; -- usually on a flat…

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Parcel 76% connected

A portion of anything taken separately; a fragment of a whole; a part.

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Plan 76% connected

A draught or form; properly, a representation drawn on a plane, as a map or a chart; especially, a top view, as of a machine, or the representation o…

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Project 76% connected

The place from which a thing projects, or starts forth.

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Scheme 76% connected

A combination of things connected and adjusted by design; a system.

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Story 76% connected

A set of rooms on the same floor or level; a floor, or the space between two floors. Also, a horizontal division of a building's exterior considered…

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Strategy 76% connected

The science of military command, or the science of projecting campaigns and directing great military movements; generalship.

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Tract 76% connected

A written discourse or dissertation, generally of short extent; a short treatise, especially on practical religion.

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Derivationally related 4

Plotter 74% connected

One who plots or schemes; a contriver; a conspirator; a schemer.

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Plotter 74% connected

One who plots or schemes; a contriver; a conspirator; a schemer.

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Schemer 74% connected

One who forms schemes; a projector; esp., a plotter; an intriguer.

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Schemer 74% connected

One who forms schemes; a projector; esp., a plotter; an intriguer.

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Synonym 4

Diagram 92% connected

A figure or drawing made to illustrate a statement, or facilitate a demonstration; a plan.

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Game 92% connected

Crooked; lame; as, a game leg.

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Patch 92% connected

A piece of cloth, or other suitable material, sewed or otherwise fixed upon a garment to repair or strengthen it, esp. upon an old garment to cover a…

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Plat 92% connected

To form by interlaying interweaving; to braid; to plait.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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