Intrigue vs. Mystery
Intriguenoun
A complicated or clandestine plot or scheme intended to effect some purpose by secret artifice; conspiracy; stratagem.
Intriguenoun
The plot of a play, poem or romance; the series of complications in which a writer involves their imaginary characters.
Intriguenoun
Clandestine intercourse between persons; illicit intimacy; a liaison or affair.
Intrigueverb
(intransitive) To conceive or carry out a secret plan intended to harm; to form a plot or scheme.
Intrigueverb
(transitive) To arouse the interest of; to fascinate.
Intrigueverb
(intransitive) To have clandestine or illicit intercourse.
Intrigueverb
(transitive) To fill with artifice and duplicity; to complicate.
Intrigueverb
To form a plot or scheme; to contrive to accomplish a purpose by secret artifice.
Intrigueverb
To carry on a secret and illicit love or amour.
Intrigueverb
To fill with artifice and duplicity; to complicate; to embarrass.
Intriguenoun
Intricacy; complication.
Intriguenoun
A complicated plot or scheme intended to effect some purpose by secret artifice; conspiracy; stratagem.
Intriguenoun
The plot of a play or romance; a complicated scheme of designs, actions, and events.
Intriguenoun
A secret and illicit love affair between two persons of different sexes; an amour; a liaison.
Intriguenoun
a crafty and involved plot to achieve your (usually sinister) ends
Intriguenoun
a clandestine love affair
Intrigueverb
cause to be interested or curious
Intrigueverb
form intrigues (for) in an underhand manner
Mysterynoun
Something secret or unexplainable; an unknown.
Mysterynoun
Someone or something with an obscure or puzzling nature.
Mysterynoun
(obsolete) A secret or mystical meaning.
Mysterynoun
A religious truth not understandable by the application of human reason alone (without divine aid).
Mysterynoun
A sacrament.
Mysterynoun
A secret religious celebration, admission to which was usually through initiation.
Mysterynoun
(Catholicism) A particular event or series of events in the life of Christ.
Mysterynoun
A craft, art or trade; specifically a guild of craftsmen.
Mysterynoun
A profound secret; something wholly unknown, or something kept cautiously concealed, and therefore exciting curiosity or wonder; something which has not been or can not be explained; hence, specifically, that which is beyond human comprehension.
Mysterynoun
A kind of secret religious celebration, to which none were admitted except those who had been initiated by certain preparatory ceremonies; - usually plural; as, the Eleusinian mysteries.
Mysterynoun
The consecrated elements in the eucharist.
Mysterynoun
Anything artfully made difficult; an enigma.
Mysterynoun
A trade; a handicraft; hence, any business with which one is usually occupied.
Mysterynoun
A dramatic representation of a Scriptural subject, often some event in the life of Christ; a dramatic composition of this character; as, the Chester Mysteries, consisting of dramas acted by various craft associations in that city in the early part of the 14th century.
Mysterynoun
something that baffles understanding and cannot be explained;
Mysterynoun
a story about a crime (usually murder) presented as a novel or play or movie
