Met with some folks to discuss the "teen issue" at the library earlier in the week. During the course of the meeting, I was referred to as "the instigator". Ouch. A definition: someone who deliberately foments trouble; "she was the instigator of their quarrel" or, a person who initiates a course of action. A few synonyms: advocate, agent, anarchist, champion, demagogue, disrupter, dissident, dogmatist, fighter, firebrand, fireman, fomenter, hatchet man, heretic, incendiary, inciter, instigator, leftist, malcontent, mover, needle man, partisan, propagandist, provocateur, pusher, rabble-rouser, radical, reaction, rebel, reformer, revisionist, revolutionary, ringleader, sparkplug, trouble-maker, zealot. I think I prefer sparkplug.
Sunday, July 02, 2006
the instigator...
Met with some folks to discuss the "teen issue" at the library earlier in the week. During the course of the meeting, I was referred to as "the instigator". Ouch. A definition: someone who deliberately foments trouble; "she was the instigator of their quarrel" or, a person who initiates a course of action. A few synonyms: advocate, agent, anarchist, champion, demagogue, disrupter, dissident, dogmatist, fighter, firebrand, fireman, fomenter, hatchet man, heretic, incendiary, inciter, instigator, leftist, malcontent, mover, needle man, partisan, propagandist, provocateur, pusher, rabble-rouser, radical, reaction, rebel, reformer, revisionist, revolutionary, ringleader, sparkplug, trouble-maker, zealot. I think I prefer sparkplug.
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