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instigate
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The Nickel Boys
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- Unless there was a higher system to how many each boy got: repeat offender, instigator, bystander.†
p. 68.3instigator = someone who starts something or causes it to happen
- After a week and a half, Spencer got tired of being afraid—in truth he was afraid much of the time but was unaccustomed to one of his black boys instigating that fear—and paid Elwood a visit.†
p. 194.2 *instigating = starting something or causing it to happen
Definitions:
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(1)
(instigate) start or set into motion -- typically some kind of conflict
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)