stratagem (n.)
- action
- alibi
- answer
- apology
- art
- artifice
- blind
- bluff
- cabal
- catch
- chicanery
- cloak
- collusion
- color
- complicity
- confederacy
- connivance
- conspiracy
- contrivance
- countermove
- counterplot
- coup
- cover
- cover-up
- covin
- craft
- curve
- deceit
- demarche
- design
- device
- dodge
- effort
- engineering
- excuse
- expedient
- facade
- feint
- fetch
- finesse
- frame-up
- front
- gambit
- game
- gimmick
- gloss
- googly
- guise
- handle
- hocus-pocus
- improvisation
- intrigue
- joker
- juggle
- jugglery
- knavery
- lure
- machination
- makeshift
- maneuver
- manipulation
- mask
- means
- measure
- move
- pass
- plan
- play
- plot
- ploy
- pretense
- pretension
- pretext
- protestation
- racket
- refuge
- resort
- resource
- rigging
- ruse
- scheme
- screen
- semblance
- shake-up
- sham
- shift
- show
- sleight
- solution
- stalking-horse
- step
- stopgap
- strategy
- stroke
- subterfuge
- tactic
- trick
- trickery
- trump
- varnish
- veil
- wile
For her own breakfast she 'll project a scheme,
Nor take her tea without a stratagem.
