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How to sign: a person who initiates a course of action
Similiar / Same: initiator
Categories: leader
Within this category: aggressor
How to sign: someone who deliberately foments trouble
"she was the instigator of their quarrel";
Similiar / Same: provoker, inciter, instigant, firebrand
Categories: bad hat, mischief-maker, troublemaker, troubler, trouble maker
Within this category: ringleader