Connive
Part of speech: verb
Definition: to cooperate with others secretly in order to commit a crime; to collude to plot or scheme to pretend to be ignorant of something in order to escape blame to be a wench
Intrigue
Part of speech: verb
Definition: To conceive or carry out a secret plan intended to harm; to form a plot or scheme.To arouse the interest of; to fascinate.To have clandestine or illicit intercourse.
Part of speech: noun
Definition: A complicated or clandestine plot or scheme intended to effect some purpose by secret artifice; conspiracy; stratagem.The plot of a play, poem or romance; the series of complications in which a writer involves his imaginary characters.Clandestine intercourse between persons; illicit intimacy; a liaison.
Example sentence: There's a lot of thought in art. People get to talk about important things. There's a lot of sex, you know, in art. There's a lot of naked women and men, and there's intrigue, there's fakery. It's a real microcosm of the larger world.