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Unit One Chapter 2: Hardly a Loser
Vocabulary in Context

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Directions

Click on the meaning closest to that of the boldfaced word. Use the context of the sentences to help you figure out the word’s meaning.

Question

Question 1. instigate -verb
  • The rock group’s violent performance instigated a riot in the audience.
  • An English captain named Robert Jenkins instigated a war in 1738 by displaying his pickled ear, which he said had been cut off by a Spanish patrol. The horrified British declared war on Spain—the “War of Jenkins’ Ear.”
Instigate means
 
 
 
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