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scheme, n. design, plan, project, machination, intrigue, cabal; outline, draught, arrangement, plan, system.
scheme, v. devise, excogitate, plan, machinate, plot, design.
schemer, n. plotter, intriguer, machinator, intrigant, planner, contriver.
scheming, a. artful, designing, intriguing, Machiavelian, tricky, wily, insidious. Antonyms: guileless, undesigning, artless.
schismatic, a. dissentious, heretical, dissentient, schismatical.
schismatic, n. nonconformist, dissenter, separatist, heretic, sectary.
scholar, n. pupil, student, learner, disciple; savant, philomath.
scholarly, a. scholarlike, erudite, scholastic.
scholars.h.i.+p, n. erudition, learning, knowledge, attainments, polymathy.
school, n. inst.i.tute, academy, seminary, college, gymnasium conservatory, university; denomination, sect; shoal; clinic.
school, v. train, educate, drill, teach.
schooling, n. education, training, nurture, discipline; tuition.
scientist, n. savant.
scintilla, n. iota, trace, whit, particle, mite, bit, t.i.ttle, jot, sc.r.a.p, atom.
scion, n. descendant, heir; shoot, sprout.
scoff, v. deride, ridicule, mock, sneer, gibe, jeer, contemn.
scoffer, n. derider, ridiculer, mocker, sneerer, scorner, contemner, jeerer.
scoffery, n. mockery, derision, ridicule, jeering.
scold, v. chide, berate, censure, reprimand, blame, reprove, brawl, lecture, reprehend, vituperate, rate, rebuke, declaim against.
scold, n. shrew, vixen, virago, termagant, rixatrix, Xantippe.
scolding, n. chiding, censure, rating, reprimand, reprehension, rebuke, berating.
scolding, a. berating, chiding, censorious, shrewish, reprehensory, termagant.
scoop, n. ladle; cavity, hollow; stroke, sweep, swoop.
scope, n. design, purpose; opportunity, s.p.a.ce, room, liberty; extent, compa.s.s, purview.
scorch, v. singe, char, torrefy, burn, parch.
score, n. tally, account; notch, incision; motive, account, reason, sake, consideration, behalf; line, groove; twenty.
score, v. notch, scratch, cut; record, enter.
scorn, n. contempt, disdain, derision, contumely, mockery, slight.
scorn, v. despise, reject, contemn, disregard, scout, spurn.
scornful, a. disdainful, contemptuous, contumelious, defiant.
Scotch, n. Gaelic.
Scotchman, n. Scot, Scotsman, Caledonian, Gael, Celt.
Scotland, n. Scotia, Caledonia.
scoundrel, n. villain, knave, rascal, scamp, rogue, caitiff, reprobate, cheat, swindler, libertine, miscreant, bezonian, vagabond, wretch.
scoundrelism, n. villainy, turpitude, knavery, rascality.
scourge, n. affliction, infliction, bane, punishment.
scout, v. disdain, flout, contemn, scorn, spurn, scoff, ridicule.
scout, n. spy.
scowl, v. glower, frown, lower.--n. frown.
scowling, a. sullen, glowering, frowning, lowering.
scraggy, a. scragged, craggy; scrawny, lank, gaunt, skinny, angular.
scramble, v. scrabble, clamber; struggle, contend, strive.
sc.r.a.p, n. bit, fragment, morsel, crumb; excerpt, extract; pl.
cracklings.
sc.r.a.pbook, n. commonplace book, alb.u.m.
sc.r.a.pe, n. difficulty, predicament, dilemma.
sc.r.a.pe, v. abrade, rasp, grate, rub; gather, collect; erase, remove.
sc.r.a.per, n. rasper.
sc.r.a.ppy, a. fragmentary, disconnected, inconsistent.
scratch, v. sc.r.a.pe; scribble; erase, expunge; scarify.
scratch, a. (Slang) haphazard, chance, improvised.
