COUNTERPLOT Synonyms

• a secret agreement between two or more people to perform an unlawful act

• a plot to carry out some harmful or illegal act (especially a political plot)

• a group of conspirators banded together to achieve some harmful or illegal purpose

• a crafty and involved plot to achieve your (usually sinister) ends

• a clandestine love affair

• cause to be interested or curious

• form intrigues (for) in an underhand manner

• a crafty and involved plot to achieve your (usually sinister) ends

• a secret scheme to do something (especially something underhand or illegal)

• a small area of ground covered by specific vegetation

• the story that is told in a novel or play or movie etc.

• a chart or graph showing the movements or progress of an object

• plan secretly, usually something illegal

• make a schematic or technical drawing that shows interactions among variables or how something is constructed

• make a plot of

• devise the sequence of events in (a literary work or a play, movie, or ballet)

• an opening remark intended to secure an advantage for the speaker

• a maneuver in a game or conversation

• an elaborate and systematic plan of action

• a statement that evades the question by cleverness or trickery

• a group of independent but interrelated elements comprising a unified whole

• an internal representation of the world; an organization of concepts and actions that can be revised by new information about the world

• a schematic or preliminary plan

• form intrigues (for) in an underhand manner

• devise a system or form a scheme for

• a maneuver in a game or conversation

• an elaborate or deceitful scheme contrived to deceive or evade

• a plot intended to subvert another plot