Act and Scheme

Act

Act noun - A performance regularly presented by an individual or group.

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Scheme and act are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Scheme" instead a noun "Act".

Nearby Words: acting, acted

Scheme noun - A clever often underhanded means to achieve an end.

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Act and scheme are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Act" instead a noun "Scheme".

Nearby Words: schemed, scheming, schema, schemer, schematic

old	old act	old scheme
good	good act	good scheme
particular	particular act	particular scheme
similar	similar act	similar scheme
Other adjectives: original, simple, actual, entire, real, massive, big, great, evil, little, villainous, horrible, main, illegal, criminal, ultimate, new, final, next, last.

Orcus on His Throne: Uka Uka spends a lot of titles barely contributing anything towards the villains' plots, leaving Cortex or another head minion to create the scheme and act as the de facto Big Bad.

Source: Franchise / Crash Bandicoot
Sitcom up until the 1990s used a two act structure, with a plot twist at the commercial break and a second act where the Zany Scheme fell apart, restoring the status quo.

Source: Two-Act Structure
Also a part of another episode, where the criminal in question alternately encourages and discourages the elderly to act like this, because of an over-elaborate scheme he has.

Source: Western Animation / Pasila

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