provocateur
B2CEFR level
52/100Rarity: uncommon
TechnicalRegister
A person who deliberately incites another to commit an unlawful act, often to expose or entrap them.
The defence claimed he had been snared by a police provocateur who pressed him into the deal.
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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