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Agent provocateur Moderate

Origin: French suffix -eur

Agent provocateur has 2 different meanings across 1 category:

Noun

Definitions
Noun
1

a secret agent who incites suspected persons to commit illegal acts

2

A person who secretly disrupts a group's activities from within the group; an instigator, troublemaker.

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Broader Terms (hypernyms)
secret agent
Rhyming Words
eur neur fleur soeur coeur veneur auteur tuteur poseur voyeur pudeur viveur lafleur lefleur flaneur flâneur ecoteur tiqueur liqueur lesueur
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