Synonyms of the word

machination

• n. A clever scheme or artful plot, usually crafted for evil purposes.
• n. The act of machinating or plotting.

game

• n. A playful or competitive activity.
• n. (countable) A video game.
• n. (countable, informal, nearly always singular) A field of gainful activity, as an industry or profession.
• n. (countable, figuratively) Something that resembles a game with rules, despite not being designed.
• n. (countable, military) An exercise simulating warfare, whether computerized or involving human participants.
• n. (uncountable) Wild animals hunted for food.
• n. (uncountable, informal, used mostly of males) The ability to seduce someone, usually by strategy.
• n. (countable) A questionable or unethical practice in pursuit of a goal; a scheme.
• adj. (colloquial) Willing to participate.
• adj. (of an animal) That shows a tendency to continue to fight against another animal, despite being wounded,…
• adj. Persistent, especially in senses similar to the above.
• adj. Injured, lame (of a limb).
• v. (intransitive) To gamble.
• v. (intransitive) To play video games and be a gamer.
• v. (transitive) To exploit loopholes in a system or bureaucracy in a way which defeats or nullifies the spirit…
• v. (transitive, slang, of males) To perform premeditated seduction strategy.

intrigue

• n. A complicated or clandestine plot or scheme intended to effect some purpose by secret artifice; conspiracy;…
• n. The plot of a play, poem or romance; the series of complications in which a writer involves their imaginary…
• n. Clandestine intercourse between persons; illicit intimacy; a liaison or affair.
• v. (intransitive) To conceive or carry out a secret plan intended to harm; to form a plot or scheme.
• v. (transitive) To arouse the interest of; to fascinate.
• v. (intransitive) To have clandestine or illicit intercourse.
• v. (transitive) To fill with artifice and duplicity; to complicate.

plot

• n. The course of a story, comprising a series of incidents which are gradually unfolded, sometimes by unexpected…
• n. An area or land used for building on or planting on.
• n. A graph or diagram drawn by hand or produced by a mechanical or electronic device.
• n. A secret plan to achieve an end, the end or means usually being illegal or otherwise questionable.
• n. Contrivance; deep reach thought; ability to plot or intrigue.
• n. Participation in any stratagem or conspiracy.
• n. A plan; a purpose.
• v. (transitive) To conceive (a crime, etc).
• v. (transitive) To trace out (a graph or diagram).
• v. (transitive) To mark (a point on a graph, chart, etc).
• v. (intransitive) To conceive a crime, misdeed, etc.