a secret plan for accomplishing evil or unlawful endsincredibly complicated machinations to assassinate the president that inevitably failed

plot, intrigue, machination, conspiracy, cabal mean a plan secretly devised to accomplish an evil or treacherous end.plot implies careful foresight in planning a complex scheme.an assassination plotintrigue suggests secret underhanded maneuvering in an atmosphere of duplicity.backstairs intriguemachination implies a contriving of annoyances, injuries, or evils by indirect means.the machinations of a party bossconspiracy implies a secret agreement among several people usually involving treason or great treachery.a conspiracy to fix pricescabal typically applies to political intrigue involving persons of some eminence.a cabal among powerful senators

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• self-confidence
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• self-confident
• self-congratulation
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• self-conscious
• self-consciousness
• self-consequence
• self-contained
• self-containment
• self-contemplation
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• self-content
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• self-denying
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