Concept cluster: Tasks > Deception and intrigue
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A person who secretly disrupts a group's activities from within the group, particularly by encouraging or committing illegal acts to discredit the group or expose them to prosecution; an instigator, troublemaker.
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An agente provocatrice.
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A female agent provocateur; a woman who incites someone to do something, especially something incriminating.
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(obsolete) To allure; to entice.
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One who is alluring.
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Someone who tries to work an angle; a person who schemes or has an ulterior motive.
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One who attires.
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An attrahent agent; something that attracts.
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(transitive, intransitive) To seem attractive and inviting
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One who or that which belies.
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One who bevels.
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(archaic) A betrayer or divulger.
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One who abducts or controls another's body, such as a slaver, psychic, or human resources agent.
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Someone who interferes with others; one who is nosy, intrusive or meddlesome.
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One who detains somebody in conversation against their will.
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One who cabals; a plotter or intriguer.
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A person who circumvents
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One who coerces.
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One who conspires in a fraud.
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One who arrives.
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(obsolete) coition; copulation; sexual intercourse.
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(intransitive) To secretly cooperate with other people in order to commit a crime or other wrongdoing; to collude, to conspire.
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(intransitive) To secretly plot or make plans together, often with the intention to bring bad or illegal results.
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(intransitive) To socialize in a friendly manner.
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(obsolete) More cunning.
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A coup d'état.
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A person who secretly acts out a role, such as victim or mourner, as part of a staged depiction of a deadly event, particularly a mass shooting.
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Alternative form of deep-throater [Someone who deep-throats.]
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(computing, informal) A defragmenter.
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(transitive) To disguise or hide by adopting a false appearance.
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(obsolete) To dissemble.
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One who distorts.
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(non-native speakers' English) A saboteur.
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(US, military) To put under a DNA order because of mental illness.
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One who doxxes.
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One who ekes.
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One who eloigns.
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One who embroils.
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One who enchases.
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Obsolete form of incitement. [A call to act; encouragement to act, often in an illegal fashion.]
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One who encroaches.
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To attract, to please; (archaic) to fascinate or win over (someone).
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(US, politics, euphemistic) The practice of using techniques normally considered torture that are claimed not to be torture according to a carefully parsed interpretation of legal language.
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One who enraptures.
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One who enshrines.
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(transitive) To amuse (someone); to engage the attention of agreeably.
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Obsolete spelling of entertain [(transitive) To amuse (someone); to engage the attention of agreeably.]
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A person who enslaves or subjugates.
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One who entices or allures.
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Obsolete spelling of entice [(transitive) To lure; to attract by arousing desire or hope.]
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One who entrances.
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Obsolete form of intrigue. [(intransitive) To conceive or carry out a secret plan intended to harm; to form a plot or scheme.]
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One who espies.
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The victim of an execution.
adj
(obsolete) Making.
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One who fathoms.
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A person who serves as an agent to arrange for a desired result, perhaps by improper means.
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One who foists; a falsifier.
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(archaic) An invention, creation.
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A person who frames another, attempting to have them convicted of a crime they did not commit.
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One who genuflects.
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One who impales.
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(obsolete) A poisoner.
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One who importunes.
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One who infiltrates an organization or territory; an undercover or covert agent.
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(obsolete) One who lies in ambush.
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One who insnares.
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A person who intentionally instigates, incites, or starts something, especially one that creates trouble.
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One who interweaves.
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One who intimidates.
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An intriguer.
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An intriguer.
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A complicated or clandestine plot or scheme intended to effect some purpose by secret artifice; conspiracy; stratagem.
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The practice of intrigue.
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One who intromits.
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Someone who intrudes.
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One who inveigles.
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One who irrumates.
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One who jeopardizes.
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One who lobbies; a lobbyist.
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One who lures.
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A schemer or intriguer.
adj
Tending to manipulate.
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(informal, derogatory) To interrupt condescendingly (a female interlocutor), presuming that the female speaker has less ability to transmit a message merely because she is not male.
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The act of manterrupting a woman.
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One who affixes with norsels.
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One who obtrudes.
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One who takes pains; a careful worker.
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(obsolete) One who impairs.
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A perpender.
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One who perverts (a person or thing).
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(derogatory, slang) A poseur; someone who affects some behaviour, style, attitude or other condition, often to impress or influence others.
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One who preens.
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One who or that which provokes.
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One who engages in provocative behavior.
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one who engages in provocation
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One who is subjected to provocation.
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The act of one who pries.
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A coup d'état; an illegal effort to forcibly overthrow the current government.
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Alternative spelling of quarreler [One who quarrels or is disposed to do so. An arguer or disputer.]
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The touching of a diseased person by the hand of a king, with the purpose of restoring health; formerly extensively practiced, particularly for the scrofula.
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One who is given to scheming.
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(by extension) Someone who supports an unpopular cause.
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One who subirrigates.
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The act of one who suborns.
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A systematic attempt to overthrow a government by working from within; undermining.
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One who subverts.
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One who likes novelty and change; one who is optimistic about new endeavors.
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One who tampers.
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One who teems, or brings forth.
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Someone or something that tempts.
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one who tergiversates
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A person skilled at locating the causes of problems and rectifying them.
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One who violates a truce, covenant, or engagement.
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A secret scheme or trick.
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One who unriddles; a solver of puzzles.
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One who carries a verge, or emblem of office.

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