Ploy and Secret

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

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

Nearby Word: ployed

Secret noun - Information shared only with another or with a select few.

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Ploy and secret are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Ploy" instead a noun "Secret".

old	old ploy	old secret
particular	particular ploy	particular secret
obvious	obvious ploy	obvious secret
massive	massive ploy	massive secret
Other adjectives: ancient, final, last, ongoing, deeper.

The secret ending reveals that the entire series of events has been manipulated by Mantorok as a ploy to have the Ancients destroy each other, leaving him unopposed.

Source: Video Game / Eternal Darkness
The phone actually contains evidence of a secret Ministry of Defense ploy to save a group of plane passengers from a terrorist attack.

Source: Red Herring
A Day With Bowser Jr: In Rise of Fawful (part 1), Bowser Jr crush on Kylie renders him oblivious to Fawful's obvious ploy to extract secret information from him.

Source: Love Makes You Dumb

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