Ploy and Savvy

Ploy

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

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Savvy and ploy are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Savvy" instead a noun "Ploy".

Nearby Word: ployed

Savvy noun - Knowledge gained by actually doing or living through something.

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Ploy and savvy are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Ploy" instead a noun "Savvy".

good	good ploy	good savvy
typical	typical ploy	typical savvy
common	common ploy	common savvy
effective	effective ploy	effective savvy
Other adjectives: little, bad, pretty, political.

Savvy villains attempting to avoid this effect can attempt an El Cid Ploy.

Source: Decapitated Army
If there wasn't a plan to begin with, possibly due to a Genre Savvy plotter knowing this will happen the moment they start, it's an Indy Ploy.

Source: Didn't See That Coming
Then she would need to act crazy so that no one would believe her story, and go crazy enough to want to see her dead husband, be savvy enough to pull off a successful Indy Ploy to get into the cargo bay, and be forgetful enough to leave his coffin unlocked.

Source: Gambit Roulette

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