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intrigue
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a crafty and involved plot to achieve your (usually sinister) ends
a clandestine love affair
cause to be interested or curious
related words >
Byzantine intrigues
,
absorb
,
adulterous affair
,
adultery
,
affair
,
amor
,
amour
,
angle
,
appeal
,
art
,
artful dodge
,
artfulness
,
artifice
,
attract
,
backstairs influence
,
becharm
,
beguile
,
bewitch
,
blind
,
brew
,
cabal
,
captivate
,
carry away
,
cast a spell
,
charm
,
chicanery
,
cogitate
,
collogue
,
collude
,
collusion
,
complicity
,
complot
,
concoct
,
confederacy
,
connections
,
connivance
,
connive
,
conspiracy
,
conspire
,
contrivance
,
contrive
,
contriving
,
cook up
,
countermine
,
counterplot
,
coup
,
covin
,
craft
,
craftiness
,
credibility gap
,
cuckoldry
,
cute trick
,
deals
,
deceit
,
deceitfulness
,
deception
,
deep-laid plot
,
design
,
device
,
devise
,
disingenuousness
,
dodge
,
double-dealing
,
enchant
,
engineer
,
engineering
,
enrapture
,
enravish
,
entanglement
,
enthrall
,
entrance
,
eternal triangle
,
excite
,
expedient
,
fakement
,
falseheartedness
,
fascinate
,
feint
,
fetch
,
finagle
,
finagling
,
finesse
,
flirtation
,
forbidden love
,
forswearing
,
frame
,
frame up
,
frame-up
,
fraud
,
gambit
,
game
,
games
,
gerrymander
,
gimmick
,
grift
,
guile
,
hanky-panky
,
hatch
,
hatch a plot
,
hatch up
,
hypnotize
,
illicit love
,
infatuate
,
infidelity
,
influence peddling
,
insincerity
,
interest
,
intimacy
,
intrigues
,
jockey
,
jugglery
,
knavery
,
lay a plot
,
liaison
,
little game
,
lobbying
,
lobbyism
,
love affair
,
machinate
,
machination
,
maneuver
,
maneuvering
,
manipulate
,
manipulation
,
mesmerize
,
move
,
operate
,
perjury
,
pique
,
play games
,
plot
,
plotting
,
ploy
,
ploys
,
practice
,
pull strings
,
racket
,
red herring
,
rig
,
rigging
,
romance
,
romantic tie
,
ropes
,
ruse
,
scheme
,
schemery
,
schemes
,
scheming
,
sharp practice
,
shift
,
sleight
,
spell
,
spellbind
,
stratagem
,
strategy
,
strings
,
subterfuge
,
tactic
,
titillate
,
transport
,
triangle
,
trick
,
trickery
,
uncandidness
,
uncandor
,
underplot
,
unfaithfulness
,
unfrankness
,
unsincereness
,
untruthfulness
,
vamp
,
wangle
,
web of intrigue
,
wile
,
wily device
,
wire-pulling
,
wires
,
witch
thong
collapse
a thin strip of leather; often used to lash things together
related words >
belt
,
blacksnake
,
braid
,
brail
,
bullwhack
,
bullwhip
,
cable
,
cat
,
cord
,
cowhide
,
crop
,
flagellum
,
horsewhip
,
knout
,
kurbash
,
lash
,
ligament
,
ligation
,
ligature
,
line
,
quirt
,
rawhide
,
razor strap
,
rope
,
scourge
,
sjambok
,
spun yarn
,
strap
,
string
,
tendon
,
twine
,
twist
,
whip
,
whiplash
,
wire
,
yarn
strategist
collapse
an expert in strategy (especially in warfare)
related words >
Machiavellian
,
a
,
architect
,
behind-the-scenes operator
,
calculator
,
contriver
,
designer
,
developer
,
deviser
,
eminence grise
,
enterpriser
,
entrepreneur
,
finagler
,
framer
,
gamesman
,
gray eminence
,
intriguer
,
kingmaker
,
logroller
,
machinator
,
maneuverer
,
manipulator
,
operator
,
organizer
,
planner
,
pork-barrel politician
,
projector
,
promoter
,
schemer
,
strategian
,
tactician
,
wheeler-dealer
,
wire-puller
bind up
collapse
related words >
bale
,
band
,
bandage
,
belt
,
bend
,
bind
,
brace
,
bundle
,
bundle up
,
chain
,
cinch
,
do up
,
gird
,
girdle
,
girt
,
girth
,
lace
,
lash
,
leash
,
pack
,
package
,
parcel
,
roll up
,
rope
,
splice
,
strap
,
swaddle
,
swathe
,
tie
,
tie up
,
truss
,
truss up
,
wire
,
wrap
,
wrap up
reportage
collapse
related words >
advice
,
broadcast journalism
,
information
,
intelligence
,
journalism
,
news
,
news agency
,
news medium
,
news service
,
newsiness
,
newsletter
,
newsmagazine
,
newspaper
,
newsworthiness
,
press association
,
radio
,
telegraph agency
,
television
,
the fourth estate
,
the press
,
tidings
,
wire service
,
word
tidings
collapse
related words >
advice
,
broadcast journalism
,
information
,
intelligence
,
journalism
,
news
,
news agency
,
news medium
,
news service
,
newsiness
,
newsletter
,
newsmagazine
,
newspaper
,
newsworthiness
,
press association
,
radio
,
reportage
,
telegraph agency
,
television
,
the fourth estate
,
the press
,
wire service
,
word
operator
collapse
an agent that operates some apparatus or machine; "the operator of the switchboard"
someone who owns or operates a business; "who is the operator of this franchise?"
a speculator who trades aggressively on stock or commodity markets
(mathematics) a symbol that represents a function from functions to functions; "the integral operator"
related words >
Machiavellian
,
PBX operator
,
activist
,
actor
,
administrator
,
adventurer
,
agent
,
architect
,
author
,
ball of fire
,
beaver
,
behind-the-scenes operator
,
big operator
,
big wheel
,
big-time operator
,
bustler
,
busy bee
,
central
,
coconspirator
,
conductor
,
conniver
,
conspirator
,
conspirer
,
counterplotter
,
creator
,
director
,
doer
,
driver
,
eager beaver
,
eminence grise
,
engineer
,
enthusiast
,
executant
,
executor
,
executrix
,
exploiter
,
fabricator
,
faker
,
finagler
,
fraud
,
functionary
,
gamesman
,
go-getter
,
gray eminence
,
gunslinger
,
handler
,
human dynamo
,
hustler
,
intrigant
,
intriguer
,
kingmaker
,
lame duck
,
live wire
,
logroller
,
long distance
,
machinator
,
maker
,
man of action
,
man of deeds
,
manager
,
maneuverer
,
manipulator
,
margin purchaser
,
medium
,
militant
,
mover
,
new broom
,
operant
,
operative
,
operative surgeon
,
opportunist
,
performer
,
perpetrator
,
pilot
,
plotter
,
plunger
,
political activist
,
pork-barrel politician
,
powerhouse
,
practitioner
,
prime mover
,
producer
,
runner
,
sawbones
,
scalper
,
schemer
,
smart operator
,
smoothie
,
speculator
,
stag
,
steersman
,
strategist
,
subject
,
superintendent
,
supervisor
,
surgeon
,
switchboard operator
,
take-charge guy
,
telephone operator
,
telephonist
,
wheeler-dealer
,
winner
,
wire-puller
,
wise guy
,
worker
pull strings
collapse
related words >
act on
,
angle
,
approach
,
bear upon
,
contrive
,
draw
,
draw on
,
engineer
,
exert influence
,
finagle
,
gerrymander
,
get cozy with
,
intrigue
,
jockey
,
lead on
,
lobby
,
lobby through
,
machinate
,
magnetize
,
make advances
,
make overtures
,
make up to
,
maneuver
,
manipulate
,
play games
,
plot
,
scheme
,
wangle
,
wire-pull
,
work on
infidelity
collapse
the quality of being unfaithful
related words >
Punic faith
,
adulterous affair
,
adultery
,
affair
,
agnosticism
,
amor
,
amour
,
apostasy
,
atheism
,
bad faith
,
barratry
,
breach of faith
,
breach of promise
,
breach of trust
,
cheating
,
cuckoldry
,
denial
,
dereliction
,
disaffection
,
disbelief
,
discredit
,
disloyalty
,
entanglement
,
eternal triangle
,
faithlessness
,
falseness
,
falsity
,
fickleness
,
flirtation
,
forbidden love
,
gentilism
,
hanky-panky
,
heresy
,
illicit love
,
inability to believe
,
inconstancy
,
incredulity
,
intrigue
,
liaison
,
love affair
,
mala fides
,
minimifidianism
,
misbelief
,
nonbelief
,
nullifidianism
,
perfidy
,
recreancy
,
rejection
,
romance
,
romantic tie
,
secularism
,
traitorousness
,
treachery
,
triangle
,
trothlessness
,
unbelief
,
unbelievingness
,
unfaith
,
unfaithfulness
,
unloyalty
,
unsteadfastness
,
untrueness
radiogram
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a photographic image produced on a radiosensitive surface by radiation other than visible light (especially by X-rays or gamma rays)
a message transmitted by wireless telegraphy
related words >
ECG
,
EEG
,
EKG
,
X ray
,
X-ray movie
,
cable
,
cablegram
,
chest X-ray
,
day letter
,
electrocardiogram
,
electrocorticogram
,
electroencephalogram
,
electroencephalograph
,
electromyogram
,
encephalogram
,
encephalograph
,
fast telegram
,
night letter
,
orthodiagram
,
photofluorogram
,
photofluorograph
,
photogram
,
pyelogram
,
radiograph
,
roentgenogram
,
roentgenograph
,
scotograph
,
shadowgram
,
shadowgraph
,
skiagram
,
skiagraph
,
telegram
,
telegraph
,
telex
,
wire
go getter
collapse
related words >
activist
,
ball of fire
,
beaver
,
big-time operator
,
bustler
,
busy bee
,
doer
,
dynamo
,
eager beaver
,
enthusiast
,
human dynamo
,
hustler
,
live wire
,
man of action
,
man of deeds
,
militant
,
new broom
,
operator
,
peeler
,
political activist
,
powerhouse
,
rustler
,
self-starter
,
take-charge guy
,
wheeler-dealer
,
winner
snow job
collapse
a long and elaborate misrepresentation
related words >
allurement
,
bamboozlement
,
befooling
,
blandishment
,
bluffing
,
cajolement
,
cajolery
,
calculated deception
,
circumvention
,
coaxing
,
conning
,
deceiving
,
deception
,
deceptiveness
,
defrauding
,
delusion
,
delusiveness
,
dupery
,
engagement
,
enlistment
,
enmeshment
,
ensnarement
,
entanglement
,
entrapment
,
exhortation
,
fallaciousness
,
fallacy
,
falseness
,
flimflam
,
flimflammery
,
fond illusion
,
fooling
,
hallucination
,
hoodwinking
,
hortation
,
illusion
,
inducement
,
jawboning
,
kidding
,
lobbying
,
mirage
,
outwitting
,
overreaching
,
persuasion
,
phantasm
,
preaching
,
preachment
,
putting on
,
sales talk
,
salesmanship
,
self-deception
,
selling
,
soft soap
,
solicitation
,
song and dance
,
spoofery
,
spoofing
,
suasion
,
subterfuge
,
sweet talk
,
swindling
,
trickiness
,
tricking
,
victimization
,
vision
,
wheedling
,
willful misconception
,
wishful thinking
,
working on
plotter
collapse
an instrument (usually driven by a computer) for drawing graphs or pictures
a clerk who marks data on a chart
related words >
Benedict Arnold
,
Brutus
,
Judas
,
Judas Iscariot
,
Machiavellian
,
Quisling
,
archtraitor
,
betrayer
,
cockatrice
,
coconspirator
,
conniver
,
conspirator
,
conspirer
,
counterplotter
,
double agent
,
double-crosser
,
double-dealer
,
exploiter
,
finagler
,
informer
,
intrigant
,
intriguer
,
machinator
,
maneuverer
,
operator
,
opportunist
,
quisling
,
rat
,
schemer
,
serpent
,
snake
,
timeserver
,
traitor
,
treasonist
,
trimmer
,
turncoat
,
wire-puller
conniver
collapse
related words >
Benedict Arnold
,
Brutus
,
Judas
,
Judas Iscariot
,
Machiavellian
,
Quisling
,
archtraitor
,
betrayer
,
cockatrice
,
coconspirator
,
conspirator
,
conspirer
,
counterplotter
,
double agent
,
double-crosser
,
double-dealer
,
exploiter
,
finagler
,
informer
,
intrigant
,
intriguer
,
machinator
,
maneuverer
,
operator
,
opportunist
,
plotter
,
quisling
,
rat
,
schemer
,
serpent
,
snake
,
timeserver
,
traitor
,
treasonist
,
trimmer
,
turncoat
,
wire-puller
telegraphy
collapse
communicating at a distance by electric transmission over wire
related words >
TelAutography
,
Teletype
,
Teletype network
,
Teletyping
,
closed-circuit telegraphy
,
code
,
duplex telegraphy
,
electricity
,
facsimile telegraph
,
interrupter
,
key
,
multiplex telegraphy
,
news ticker
,
quadruplex telegraphy
,
railroad telegraphy
,
receiver
,
sender
,
simplex telegraphy
,
single-current telegraphy
,
sounder
,
stock ticker
,
submarine telegraphy
,
telegraphics
,
teleprinter
,
teletypewriter
,
teletypewriting
,
telex
,
ticker
,
transmitter
,
typotelegraph
,
typotelegraphy
,
wire service
news ticker
collapse
related words >
TelAutography
,
Teletype
,
Teletype network
,
Teletyping
,
closed-circuit telegraphy
,
code
,
duplex telegraphy
,
electricity
,
facsimile telegraph
,
interrupter
,
key
,
multiplex telegraphy
,
quadruplex telegraphy
,
railroad telegraphy
,
receiver
,
sender
,
simplex telegraphy
,
single-current telegraphy
,
sounder
,
stock ticker
,
submarine telegraphy
,
telegraphics
,
telegraphy
,
teleprinter
,
teletypewriter
,
teletypewriting
,
telex
,
ticker
,
transmitter
,
typotelegraph
,
typotelegraphy
,
wire service
self-deception
collapse
a misconception that is favorable to the person who holds it
related words >
airy nothing
,
autism
,
bamboozlement
,
befooling
,
bluffing
,
bubble
,
calculated deception
,
chimera
,
circumvention
,
conning
,
daydream
,
deceiving
,
deception
,
deceptiveness
,
defrauding
,
deluded belief
,
delusion
,
delusiveness
,
dereism
,
dream
,
dream vision
,
dreamland
,
dreamworld
,
dupery
,
enmeshment
,
ensnarement
,
entanglement
,
entrapment
,
fallaciousness
,
fallacy
,
false belief
,
falseness
,
flimflam
,
flimflammery
,
fond illusion
,
fooling
,
hallucination
,
hoodwinking
,
ignis fatuus
,
illusion
,
kidding
,
mirage
,
misbelief
,
misconception
,
misinterpretation
,
misunderstanding
,
outwitting
,
overreaching
,
phantasm
,
pipe dream
,
putting on
,
self-deceit
,
self-delusion
,
snow job
,
song and dance
,
spoofery
,
spoofing
,
subterfuge
,
swindling
,
trick
,
trickiness
,
tricking
,
trip
,
vapor
,
victimization
,
vision
,
willful misconception
,
wishful thinking
,
wrong impression
conspirator
collapse
a member of a conspiracy
related words >
Benedict Arnold
,
Brutus
,
Judas
,
Judas Iscariot
,
Machiavellian
,
Quisling
,
abettor
,
accessory
,
accomplice
,
archtraitor
,
betrayer
,
cockatrice
,
coconspirator
,
conniver
,
conspirer
,
counterplotter
,
double agent
,
double-crosser
,
double-dealer
,
exploiter
,
finagler
,
informer
,
intrigant
,
intriguer
,
machinator
,
maneuverer
,
operator
,
opportunist
,
plotter
,
quisling
,
rat
,
schemer
,
serpent
,
snake
,
timeserver
,
traitor
,
treasonist
,
trimmer
,
turncoat
,
wire-puller
logrolling
collapse
act of exchanging favors for mutual gain; especially trading of influence or votes among legislators to gain passage of certain projects
related words >
backscratching
,
barter
,
cloture
,
committee consideration
,
debate
,
deliberation
,
division
,
even trade
,
filibuster
,
filibustering
,
filing
,
first reading
,
influence peddling
,
introduction
,
lobbying
,
lobbyism
,
political influence
,
pork barrel
,
public opinion
,
roll call
,
second reading
,
social pressure
,
special-interest pressure
,
steamroller methods
,
swap
,
swapping
,
switch
,
tabling
,
talkathon
,
third reading
,
trade
,
trading
,
vote
,
wire-pulling
schemer
collapse
a planner who draws up a personal scheme of action
related words >
Benedict Arnold
,
Brutus
,
Judas
,
Judas Iscariot
,
Machiavellian
,
Quisling
,
archtraitor
,
betrayer
,
calculator
,
cockatrice
,
coconspirator
,
conniver
,
conspirator
,
conspirer
,
counterplotter
,
double agent
,
double-crosser
,
double-dealer
,
exploiter
,
finagler
,
informer
,
intrigant
,
intriguer
,
machinator
,
maneuverer
,
manipulator
,
operator
,
opportunist
,
plotter
,
quisling
,
rat
,
serpent
,
snake
,
strategist
,
tactician
,
timeserver
,
traitor
,
treasonist
,
trimmer
,
turncoat
,
wire-puller
live wire
collapse
related words >
activist
,
ball of fire
,
beaver
,
big-time operator
,
bustler
,
busy bee
,
charge
,
doer
,
dynamo
,
eager beaver
,
electric charge
,
enthusiast
,
go-getter
,
human dynamo
,
hustler
,
man of action
,
man of deeds
,
militant
,
new broom
,
operator
,
peeler
,
political activist
,
powerhouse
,
rustler
,
self-starter
,
take-charge guy
,
unit quantity
,
wheeler-dealer
,
winner
beaver
collapse
large semiaquatic rodent with webbed hind feet and a broad flat tail; construct complex dams and underwater lodges
a hat made with the fur of a beaver (or similar material)
a movable piece of armor on a medieval helmet used to protect the lower face
a full beard
the soft brown fur of the beaver
work hard on something
related words >
Vandyke
,
activist
,
ball of fire
,
beard
,
big-time operator
,
bristles
,
bustler
,
busy bee
,
doer
,
down
,
eager beaver
,
enthusiast
,
go-getter
,
goatee
,
human dynamo
,
hustler
,
imperial
,
live wire
,
man of action
,
man of deeds
,
militant
,
new broom
,
operator
,
peach fuzz
,
political activist
,
powerhouse
,
side whiskers
,
stubble
,
take-charge guy
,
tuft
,
wheeler-dealer
,
whiskers
,
winner
fixer
collapse
someone who intervenes with authorities for a person in trouble (usually using underhand or illegal methods for a fee)
related words >
cobbler
,
developer
,
doctor
,
five-percenter
,
fixing bath
,
four-percenter
,
hypo
,
influence peddler
,
little Miss Fixit
,
logroller
,
maintenance man
,
mechanic
,
mechanician
,
mender
,
power broker
,
processing solution
,
renovator
,
repairer
,
repairman
,
restorer
,
serviceman
,
short-stop
,
short-stop bath
,
sodium hyposulfite
,
sodium thiosulfate
,
soup
,
stop bath
,
tinker
,
trouble man
,
troubleshooter
,
wire-puller
maneuvering
collapse
related words >
artifice
,
behind-the-scenes influence
,
cabal
,
collusion
,
complicity
,
complot
,
confederacy
,
connivance
,
conspiracy
,
contrivance
,
contriving
,
counterplot
,
covin
,
deep-laid plot
,
devices
,
engineering
,
expedients
,
finagling
,
finesse
,
frame-up
,
game
,
influence
,
intrigue
,
little game
,
machination
,
maneuvers
,
manipulation
,
plot
,
plotting
,
political influence
,
rigging
,
scheme
,
schemery
,
scheming
,
stratagem
,
tactical maneuvers
,
tactics
,
trick
,
underplot
,
web of intrigue
,
wire-pulling
prickly
collapse
related words >
acanaceous
,
acanthoid
,
aciculate
,
aculeate
,
aculeolate
,
agitable
,
allergic
,
anaphylactic
,
annoying
,
atingle
,
bad-tempered
,
barbed
,
bothersome
,
brambly
,
briery
,
bristly
,
cantankerous
,
complex
,
complicated
,
contentious
,
cranky
,
crawling
,
crawly
,
delicate
,
difficult
,
edgy
,
emotional
,
emotionally unstable
,
empathetic
,
empathic
,
eruptive
,
excitable
,
explosive
,
fractious
,
fretful
,
goosy
,
hard
,
high-mettled
,
high-spirited
,
high-strung
,
highly emotional
,
hyperesthetic
,
hyperpathic
,
hypersensitive
,
inflammable
,
intricate
,
irascible
,
irritable
,
itchy
,
knotty
,
mettlesome
,
miffy
,
muricate
,
nervous
,
nettlesome
,
overrefined
,
oversensible
,
oversensitive
,
overtender
,
passible
,
peevish
,
perturbable
,
pettish
,
petulant
,
pricking
,
prickling
,
pricky
,
refined
,
responsive
,
sensitive
,
setaceous
,
setose
,
short-tempered
,
skittish
,
snappish
,
spiculate
,
spiky
,
spinous
,
spiny
,
startlish
,
stinging
,
supersensitive
,
sympathetic
,
tactful
,
temperamental
,
tender
,
testy
,
tetchy
,
thin-skinned
,
thistly
,
thorny
,
ticklish
,
tingling
,
tingly
,
touchy
,
troublesome
,
volcanic
,
waspish
media
collapse
related words >
communication engineering
,
communication explosion
,
communication technology
,
communication theory
,
communications
,
communications engineer
,
communications industry
,
communications medium
,
communications network
,
electrical communication
,
electronic communication
,
electronic communications
,
information explosion
,
information theory
,
radiocommunication
,
signaling
,
telecommunication
,
wire communication
,
wireless communication
juggler
collapse
a performer who juggles objects and performs tricks of manual dexterity
related words >
acrobat
,
aerialist
,
bareback rider
,
blackleg
,
cheat
,
cheater
,
chiseler
,
circus artist
,
clown
,
conjurer
,
cozener
,
crook
,
defrauder
,
diddler
,
equestrian director
,
equilibrist
,
escamoteur
,
flier
,
flimflam man
,
flimflammer
,
gyp artist
,
gypper
,
high-wire artist
,
illusionist
,
lion tamer
,
magician
,
prestidigitator
,
ringmaster
,
slack-rope artist
,
sleight-of-hand performer
,
snake charmer
,
swindler
,
sword swallower
,
tightrope walker
,
trapeze artist
,
tricker
,
trickster
,
tumbler
,
two-timer
lobby
collapse
a group of people who try actively to influence legislation
the people who support some common cause or business or principle or sectional interest
detain in conversation by or as if by holding on to the outer garments of; as for political or economic favors
related words >
Rasputin
,
Svengali
,
VIP
,
access
,
act on
,
advocate
,
approach
,
bad influence
,
bear upon
,
big wheel
,
blandish
,
cajole
,
call on
,
call upon
,
coax
,
constitute
,
corridor
,
court
,
decree
,
draw
,
draw on
,
eminence grise
,
enact
,
enact laws
,
entrance
,
entrance hall
,
entranceway
,
entry
,
entryway
,
exert influence
,
exhort
,
filibuster
,
five-percenter
,
foyer
,
friend at court
,
galilee
,
get cozy with
,
get the floor
,
good influence
,
gray eminence
,
hall
,
hallway
,
have the floor
,
heavyweight
,
hidden hand
,
high-pressure
,
importune
,
influence
,
influence peddler
,
influencer
,
ingroup
,
insist
,
insist upon
,
jawbone
,
key
,
kill
,
kingmaker
,
lead on
,
legislate
,
legislative lobby
,
lobby through
,
lobbyer
,
lobbyist
,
logroll
,
lords of creation
,
magnetize
,
make advances
,
make overtures
,
make up to
,
man of influence
,
manipulator
,
nag
,
narthex
,
open sesame
,
ordain
,
parliamentary agent
,
pass
,
persuade
,
pigeonhole
,
plead with
,
pocket
,
portal
,
portico
,
powers that be
,
press
,
pressure
,
pressure group
,
promote
,
propylaeum
,
pull strings
,
push
,
put in force
,
put through
,
railroad through
,
reception room
,
recommend
,
registered lobbyist
,
roll logs
,
sinister influence
,
soft-soap
,
special interests
,
special-interest group
,
special-interest lobby
,
stoa
,
sway
,
sweet-talk
,
table
,
take the floor
,
the Establishment
,
threshold
,
urge
,
very important person
,
vestibule
,
veto
,
wheedle
,
wheeler-dealer
,
wire-pull
,
wire-puller
,
work on
,
yield the floor
cobweb
collapse
a dense elaborate spider web that is more efficient than the orb web
filaments from a web that was spun by a spider
a fabric so delicate and transparent as to resemble a web of a spider
related words >
air
,
animal fiber
,
artificial fiber
,
bait
,
birdlime
,
bola
,
bubble
,
cambric tea
,
capillament
,
chaff
,
chip
,
cilium
,
cirrus
,
cork
,
denier
,
dishwater
,
down
,
dragnet
,
dust
,
entanglement
,
ether
,
fairy
,
feather
,
fiber
,
fibrilla
,
filament
,
filamentule
,
fishhook
,
flagellum
,
flue
,
fluff
,
fly
,
foam
,
froth
,
fuzz
,
gill net
,
gossamer
,
ground bait
,
gruel
,
hair
,
hank
,
hook
,
house of cards
,
jig
,
lariat
,
lasso
,
lime
,
lure
,
matchwood
,
meshes
,
milk and water
,
mote
,
net
,
noose
,
plug
,
pound net
,
purse seine
,
reed
,
rope of sand
,
sand castle
,
seine
,
skein
,
snare
,
sniggle
,
spinner
,
sponge
,
springe
,
spume
,
squid
,
strand
,
straw
,
suture
,
tendril
,
thistledown
,
thread
,
threadlet
,
toils
,
trawl
,
water
,
web
,
wobbler
eager beaver
collapse
an alert and energetic person
related words >
activist
,
addict
,
ball of fire
,
beaver
,
big-time operator
,
bug
,
bustler
,
busy bee
,
collector
,
demon
,
doer
,
energumen
,
enthusiast
,
faddist
,
fanatic
,
fiend
,
freak
,
go-getter
,
great one for
,
hobbyist
,
hound
,
human dynamo
,
hustler
,
infatuate
,
live wire
,
man of action
,
man of deeds
,
militant
,
new broom
,
nut
,
operator
,
political activist
,
powerhouse
,
pursuer
,
rhapsodist
,
sucker for
,
take-charge guy
,
visionary
,
wheeler-dealer
,
winner
,
zealot
entrapment
collapse
a defense that claims the defendant would not have broken the law if not tricked into doing it by law enforcement officials
related words >
agacerie
,
allure
,
allurement
,
appeal
,
attraction
,
attractiveness
,
bamboozlement
,
befooling
,
beguilement
,
beguiling
,
bewitchery
,
bewitchment
,
blandishment
,
bluffing
,
cajolery
,
calculated deception
,
captivation
,
charisma
,
charm
,
charmingness
,
circumvention
,
come-hither
,
conning
,
deceiving
,
deception
,
deceptiveness
,
defrauding
,
delusion
,
delusiveness
,
dupery
,
enchantment
,
enmeshment
,
ensnarement
,
entanglement
,
enthrallment
,
enticement
,
fallaciousness
,
fallacy
,
falseness
,
fascination
,
flimflam
,
flimflammery
,
flirtation
,
fond illusion
,
fooling
,
forbidden fruit
,
glamour
,
hallucination
,
hoodwinking
,
illusion
,
inducement
,
interest
,
inveiglement
,
invitation
,
kidding
,
magnetism
,
mirage
,
outwitting
,
overreaching
,
phantasm
,
putting on
,
seducement
,
seduction
,
seductiveness
,
self-deception
,
sex appeal
,
snaring
,
snow job
,
song and dance
,
spoofery
,
spoofing
,
subterfuge
,
swindling
,
tantalization
,
temptation
,
trickiness
,
tricking
,
victimization
,
vision
,
willful misconception
,
winning ways
,
winsomeness
,
wishful thinking
,
witchery
,
wooing
telecommunication
collapse
(often plural) the branch of electrical engineering concerned with the technology of electronic communication at a distance
(often plural) systems used in transmitting messages over a distance electronically
related words >
communication engineering
,
communication explosion
,
communication technology
,
communication theory
,
communications
,
communications engineer
,
communications industry
,
communications medium
,
communications network
,
electrical communication
,
electronic communication
,
electronic communications
,
information explosion
,
information theory
,
media
,
radio
,
radiocommunication
,
radiotelegraphy
,
radiotelephony
,
signaling
,
wire communication
,
wireless
,
wireless communication
Rasputin
collapse
Siberian peasant monk who was religious advisor in the court of Nicholas II; was assassinated by Russian noblemen who feared that his debauchery would weaken the monarchy (1872-1916)
related words >
Svengali
,
VIP
,
access
,
bad influence
,
big wheel
,
court
,
eminence grise
,
five-percenter
,
friend at court
,
good influence
,
gray eminence
,
heavyweight
,
hidden hand
,
influence
,
influence peddler
,
influencer
,
ingroup
,
key
,
kingmaker
,
lobby
,
lobbyist
,
lords of creation
,
man of influence
,
manipulator
,
open sesame
,
powers that be
,
pressure group
,
sinister influence
,
special interests
,
special-interest group
,
the Establishment
,
very important person
,
wheeler-dealer
,
wire-puller
covin
collapse
related words >
artifice
,
cabal
,
chicane
,
chicanery
,
collusion
,
complicity
,
complot
,
confederacy
,
connivance
,
connivery
,
conspiracy
,
contrivance
,
contriving
,
counterplot
,
deep-laid plot
,
dodgery
,
engineering
,
finagling
,
finesse
,
foul play
,
frame-up
,
game
,
intrigue
,
little game
,
machination
,
maneuvering
,
manipulation
,
pettifoggery
,
pettifogging
,
plot
,
plotting
,
practice
,
rigging
,
scheme
,
schemery
,
scheming
,
sharp practice
,
skulduggery
,
sleight
,
stratagem
,
supercherie
,
trick
,
trickery
,
underhand dealing
,
underplot
,
web of intrigue
,
wire-pulling
big time operator
collapse
related words >
BMOC
,
activist
,
ball of fire
,
beaver
,
big cheese
,
big noise
,
big shot
,
big wheel
,
big-timer
,
bustler
,
busy bee
,
doer
,
eager beaver
,
enthusiast
,
go-getter
,
high-muck-a-muck
,
his nibs
,
human dynamo
,
hustler
,
live wire
,
man of action
,
man of deeds
,
militant
,
new broom
,
operator
,
political activist
,
powerhouse
,
take-charge guy
,
wheel
,
wheeler-dealer
,
winner
circumvention
collapse
the act of evading by going around
related words >
avoidance
,
avoiding reaction
,
bamboozlement
,
befooling
,
bluffing
,
buck-passing
,
calculated deception
,
conning
,
deceiving
,
deception
,
deceptiveness
,
defense mechanism
,
defrauding
,
delusion
,
delusiveness
,
dodge
,
duck
,
dupery
,
elusion
,
elusiveness
,
enmeshment
,
ensnarement
,
entanglement
,
entrapment
,
equivocation
,
escape
,
evasion
,
evasive action
,
evasiveness
,
fallaciousness
,
fallacy
,
falseness
,
flimflam
,
flimflammery
,
foiling
,
fond illusion
,
fooling
,
forbearance
,
forestalling
,
forestallment
,
frustration
,
getting around
,
getting round
,
hallucination
,
hoodwinking
,
illusion
,
jink
,
kidding
,
mirage
,
neutrality
,
nonintervention
,
noninvolvement
,
outguessing
,
outmaneuvering
,
outwitting
,
overreaching
,
passing the buck
,
phantasm
,
prevention
,
putting on
,
refraining
,
self-deception
,
shunning
,
shunting off
,
shy
,
sidestep
,
sidetracking
,
slip
,
snow job
,
song and dance
,
spoofery
,
spoofing
,
subterfuge
,
swindling
,
the runaround
,
the slip
,
thwarting
,
trickiness
,
tricking
,
victimization
,
vision
,
willful misconception
,
wishful thinking
,
zigzag
back scratching
collapse
related words >
apple-polishing
,
ass-kissing
,
backscratching
,
barter
,
bootlicking
,
brown-nosing
,
cringing
,
even trade
,
fawnery
,
fawning
,
flunkyism
,
footlicking
,
groveling
,
handshaking
,
influence peddling
,
ingratiation
,
insinuation
,
lobbying
,
lobbyism
,
logrolling
,
mealymouthedness
,
obeisance
,
obsequiousness
,
parasitism
,
political influence
,
pork barrel
,
prostration
,
public opinion
,
social pressure
,
special-interest pressure
,
sponging
,
swap
,
swapping
,
switch
,
sycophancy
,
timeserving
,
toadeating
,
toadying
,
toadyism
,
trade
,
trading
,
truckling
,
tufthunting
,
wire-pulling
flex
collapse
the act of flexing; "he gave his biceps a flex to impress the ladies"
cause (a plastic object) to assume a crooked or angular form; "bend the rod"; "twist the dough into a braid"; "the strong man could turn an iron bar"
bend a joint; "flex your wrists"; "bend your knees"
contract; "flex a muscle"
exhibit the strength of; "The victorious army flexes its invincibility"
related words >
S-curve
,
arch
,
bend
,
bend back
,
bending
,
bow
,
bowing
,
cable
,
conflexure
,
contract
,
cord
,
crook
,
curl
,
curve
,
decurve
,
deflect
,
deflection
,
dome
,
embow
,
exercise
,
extension
,
flection
,
flexure
,
geanticline
,
geosyncline
,
give
,
hairpin turn
,
hook
,
hump
,
hunch
,
incurvate
,
incurve
,
inflect
,
inflection
,
lead
,
loop
,
meander
,
oxbow
,
recurve
,
reflect
,
reflection
,
reflex
,
retroflex
,
round
,
sag
,
stretch
,
swag
,
sweep
,
tense
,
tighten
,
turn
,
turning
,
vault
,
wind
,
wire
horny
collapse
having horns or hornlike projections; "horny coral"; "horny (or horned) frog"
related words >
acanthoid
,
acanthous
,
acicular
,
acuate
,
aculeate
,
aculeiform
,
acuminate
,
acute
,
animal
,
aphrodisiomaniacal
,
barbed
,
bawdy
,
bony
,
carnal
,
cement
,
cemental
,
clitoromaniacal
,
concrete
,
concupiscent
,
corneous
,
cornuted
,
cusped
,
cuspidate
,
dense
,
diamondlike
,
dirty
,
dure
,
ejaculatory
,
erotic
,
eroticomaniacal
,
erotomaniacal
,
fleshly
,
flintlike
,
flinty
,
goatish
,
granitelike
,
granitic
,
gynecomaniacal
,
hard
,
hard as nails
,
hardhearted
,
hispid
,
horned
,
hot
,
hot-blooded
,
hysteromaniacal
,
iron-hard
,
ironlike
,
itching
,
ithyphallic
,
lapideous
,
lascivious
,
lecherous
,
lewd
,
libidinous
,
lickerish
,
lithoid
,
lithoidal
,
lubricious
,
lustful
,
marble
,
marblelike
,
mucronate
,
needle-pointed
,
needle-sharp
,
nymphomaniacal
,
obdurate
,
obscene
,
orgasmic
,
orgastic
,
osseous
,
passionate
,
pointed
,
priapic
,
pronged
,
prurient
,
randy
,
resistant
,
resistive
,
rocklike
,
rocky
,
salacious
,
satyric
,
sensual
,
sex-starved
,
sexual
,
sexy
,
sharp-pointed
,
solid
,
spiculate
,
spiked
,
spiky
,
spined
,
spinous
,
spiny
,
steamy
,
steellike
,
steely
,
stonelike
,
stony
,
tapered
,
tapering
,
tined
,
toothed
,
tough
,
unbated
,
unsatisfied
Svengali
collapse
the musician in a novel by George du Maurier who controls Trilby's singing hypnotically
someone (usually maleficent) who tries to persuade or force another person to do his bidding
related words >
Mesmer
,
Rasputin
,
VIP
,
access
,
bad influence
,
big wheel
,
court
,
eminence grise
,
five-percenter
,
friend at court
,
good influence
,
gray eminence
,
heavyweight
,
hidden hand
,
hypnotist
,
hypnotizer
,
influence
,
influence peddler
,
influencer
,
ingroup
,
key
,
kingmaker
,
lobby
,
lobbyist
,
lords of creation
,
man of influence
,
manipulator
,
mesmerizer
,
open sesame
,
powers that be
,
pressure group
,
sinister influence
,
special interests
,
special-interest group
,
the Establishment
,
very important person
,
wheeler-dealer
,
wire-puller
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