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Synonyms for instigator
noun troublemakeragitator
noun. person who disturbs, causes trouble
- adjy
- advocate
- agent
- anarchist
- champion
- demagogue
- disrupter
- dissident
- dogmatist
- fighter
- firebrand
- fomenter
- heretic
- incendiary
- inciter
- instigator
- leftist
- malcontent
- mover
- partisan
- propagandist
- provocateur
- pusher
- rabble-rouser
- radical
- reactionary
- rebel
- reformer
- revisionist
- revolutionary
- ringleader
- sparkplug
- troublemaker
- wave maker
- zealot
demagogue
noun. agitating person
firebrand
noun. agitator
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