Synonyms Dictionary
2. arrangement, order, distribution, systematization, organization, codification; policy, system, course of action; method, strategy, procedure, way, game plan, scenario, process; schedule, Sl. sked, agenda, calendar, docket, order of business.
3. diagram, sketch, outline, delineation, design, projection; drawing, blueprint, schema, layout, chart, map; prospectus, syllabus, synopsis, summary, digest, brief.
4. device, ploy, stratagem, maneuver, machination, subterfuge, flimflam, Inf. racket, Sl. game; contrivance, trick, wile, finesse, ruse, tactic, Inf move; conspiracy, intrigue, complot, cabal, collusion, connivance.
-v. 5. devise, prepare, think out, plot, plan, proj ect, lay or form plans, formulate, frame, figure out, design, organize, Inf. cook up; imagine, dream up, envision, visualize, spin, contrive, conceive, invent; map out, block out, hit upon; hatch, machinate, maneuver, connive, concoct, complot, cabal, intrigue, wheel and deal, Inf. finagle. scheming, adj. 1. crafty, artful, designing, sly, cunning, Scot. and North Eng. pawky, wily; underhanded, conniving, devious, Machiavellian, calculating, intriguing, machinating, maneuvering; slick, slick as a whistle, slippery, slippery as an eel, tricky, unpredictable, foxy, guileful.
2. adroit, resourceful, inventive, ingenious, clever, astute. schism, n. 1. division, separation, parting of the ways, divergence, variance, splintering, faction; rift, split, break, breaking off or up, breach, rupture; cleavage, scission, severance; disunion, disjuncture, disjunction, disconnection, detachment.
2. faction, side, splinter party, contingent, party, group, band, ring, Inf. crowd; branch, arm, division, section, sector; sect, cult, denomination, persuasion, faith. scholar, n. 1. savant, man of letters, learned person, bookman, intellectual, highbrow, Inf. egghead, Inf. longhair, Inf. brain, Inf. walking encyclopedia; authority, expert, pundit, luminary; bibliophile, bibli-ophilist, bookworm; professor, doctor, teacher, pedagogue; pedant, Inf. know-it-all.
2. student, pupil, schoolgirl or schoolboy, learner, Fr. &£ve, Fr. 6tudiant, St. grind; undergraduate, U.S. Inf. coed, graduate student, Inf. grad student; All Educ. student teacher, practice teacher, pupil teacher, teaching or teacher's aide, teaching assistant, Inf. T.A., graduate assistant. scholarly, adj. academic, scholastic, intellectual, highbrow, highbrowed, Inf. long-haired, intelligent, Inf. brainy; studious, bookish, bibliophilistic, bibliophilic; ivory-towerish, pedagoguish, professorial, pedantic. Inf. know-it-all; erudite, learned, lettered, punditic, wise, sage, profound, deep; well-versed, knowledgeable, literate, literary, well-read; educated, book-learned, well-educated, well-instructed, well-tutored, well-schooled, well-posted, well-grounded. scholarship, n. 1. erudition, learning, letters, Archaic. literature, book learning, formal education, schooling, preparation, training; skill, know-how, knowledge, wisdom, study, Usu. Derog. bookishness; enlightenment, edification, cultivation, culture, refinement.
2. grant, award, endowment, purse, fellowship, as-sistantship, Fr. bourse, Fr. boursier.
3. collective knowledge, lore, learning, wisdom; information, facts, data.
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