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provocateur
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun provocateur has 1 sense
- provocateur(n = noun.person) agent provocateur - a secret agent who incites suspected persons to commit illegal acts; Array is a kind of intelligence agent, intelligence officer, operative, secret agent
THESAURUS
provocateur
agent provocateur, agitator, agitprop, catalyst, demagogue, exciter, firebrand, fomenter, incendiary, inciter, inflamer, instigator, mischief-maker, provoker, rabble-rouser, ringleader, rouser, seditionary, seditionist, troublemaker, urger
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