instigate
B2CEFR level
45/100Rarity: uncommon
TechnicalRegister
To bring about or provoke an unlawful act by urging others on.
Prosecutors argued that he instigated the riot, even though he threw no stones himself.
Rarity runs from 0 (a word everyone knows) to 100 (almost never seen outside specialist or literary writing). Level is the word's real difficulty on the CEFR scale, from A1 to C2.
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