ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

Detailed explanation-1: -Some common synonyms of scheme are design, plan, plot, and project.

Detailed explanation-2: -the act or faculty of devising or adapting; inventive skill or ability. an artificial rather than natural selection or arrangement of details, parts, etc. an elaborate or deceitful plan or expedient; stratagem.

Detailed explanation-3: -I think the meeting happened more by contrivance than chance. a clever device or object that has been invented for a particular purpose: We stay dry using an ingenious little contrivance called an umbrella. The plot depends on many ridiculous contrivances.

Detailed explanation-4: -artifice. nounhoax; clever act.