Intrigue vs Intellect - What's the difference?
intrigue | intellect |
A complicated or clandestine plot or scheme intended to effect some purpose by secret artifice; conspiracy; stratagem.
The plot of a play, poem or romance; the series of complications in which a writer involves their imaginary characters.
Clandestine intercourse between persons; illicit intimacy; a liaison.
To conceive or carry out a secret plan intended to harm; to form a plot or scheme.
To arouse the interest of; to fascinate.
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To have clandestine or illicit intercourse.
To fill with artifice and duplicity; to complicate.
* Dr. J. Scott
the faculty of thinking, judging, abstract reasoning, and conceptual understanding; the cognitive faculty (uncountable)
the capacity of that faculty (in a particular person) (uncountable)
a person who has that faculty to a great degree
As nouns the difference between intrigue and intellect
is that intrigue is a complicated or clandestine plot or scheme intended to effect some purpose by secret artifice; conspiracy; stratagem while intellect is the faculty of thinking, judging, abstract reasoning, and conceptual understanding; the cognitive faculty (uncountable)As a verb intrigue
is to conceive or carry out a secret plan intended to harm; to form a plot or scheme.intrigue
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Alternative forms
* entrigueNoun
(en noun)Verb
(intrigu)citation, passage=Blackboard sketches, geological maps, diagrams of molecular structure, astronomical photographs, MRI images, the many varieties of statistical charts and graphs: These pictorial devices are indispensable tools for presenting evidence, for explaining a theory, for telling a story. And, on top of all that, they are ornaments; they entice and intrigue and sometimes delight.}}
- How doth it [sin] perplex and intrigue the whole course of your lives!
References
* * English heteronyms ----intellect
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Noun
- Intellect is one of man's greatest powers.
- They were chosen because of their outstanding intellect .
- Some of the world's leading intellects were meeting there.
