Scheme and Try

Scheme

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

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Try and scheme are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Try" instead the word "Scheme" as a noun or a verb.

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

Try noun - An effort to do or accomplish something.

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Scheme and try are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Scheme" instead the word "Try" as a noun or a verb.

Nearby Words: tried, trying

old	old scheme	old try
good	good scheme	good try
usual	usual scheme	usual try
actual	actual scheme	actual try
Other adjectives: entire, real, big, great, huge, horrible, new, general, final, next, alternate, last, latest, wacky.

Each week Fibber would try out a new Zany Scheme or try to do some simple task, interrupted by people dropping in at the house or stopping him and Molly on the street.

Source: Radio / Fibber McGee and Molly
Every scheme the title characters try takes so much work to set up, just to fleece a few quarters from other kids, that they'd have gotten a lot richer if they'd devoted the same effort to mowing peoples' lawns.

Source: Cut Lex Luthor a Check
But because all the money was left to Dennis & Dee's biological father Bruce, Dee and Frank try to scheme him out of it.

Source: On One Condition

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