Conspiracy a secret or known agreement between two or more persons to commit an unlawful ac t or to accomplish a lawful end by unlawful means.

-------------------------------noun, plural conspiracies. 1.the act of conspiring. 2.an evil, unlawful, treacherous, or surreptitious plan formulated in secret by two or more persons; plot. 3.a combination of persons for a secret, unlawful, or evil purpose 4.an agreement by two or more persons to commit a crime, fraud, or other wrongfu l act. 5.any concurrence in action; combination in bringing about a given result. ------------------------------------------synonyms 1. collusion, sedition. 2. Conspiracy, plot, intrigue, cabal all refer to surrep titious or covert schemes to accomplish some end, most often an evil one. A cons piracy usually involves a group entering into a secret agreement to achieve some illicit or harmful objective: a vicious conspiracy to control prices. A plot i s a carefully planned secret scheme, usually by a small number of persons, to se cure sinister ends: a plot to seize control of a company. An intrigue usually i nvolves duplicity and deceit aimed at achieving either personal advantage or cri minal or treasonous objectives: the petty intrigues of civil servants. Cabal ref ers either to a plan by a small group of highly-placed persons to overthrow or c ontrol a government, or to the group of persons themselves: a cabal of powerful lawmakers. ----------------------------Theory: noun, plural theories. 1. a coherent group of tested general propositions, commonly regarded as correct , that can be used as principles of explanation and prediction for a class of ph enomena: Einstein's theory of relativity. Synonyms: principle, law, doctrine. 2. a proposed explanation whose status is still conjectural and subject to exper imentation, in contrast to well-established propositions that are regarded as re porting matters of actual fact. Synonyms: idea, notion hypothesis, postulate. An tonyms: practice, verification, corroboration, substantiation. A theory in technical use is a more or less verified or established explanation accounting for known facts or phenomena: the theory of relativity. A hypothesi s is a conjecture put forth as a possible explanation of phenomena or relations , which serves as a basis of argument or experimentation to reach the truth: Thi s idea is only a hypothesis. Science Dictionary theory A set of statements or principles devised to explain a group of facts or phenome na. Most theories that are accepted by scientists have been repeatedly tested by experiments and can be used to make predictions about natural phenomena. See No te at hypothesis.

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