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tending to excite political disorder or insurrection
- the restless crowd was stirred up by the inflammatory rhetoric
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'Inflame': Fired with Anger
'Inflame': Fired with Anger
Why doesn't it mean "to set on fire"?
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“Inflammatory.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/inflammatory. Accessed 15 Aug. 2022.
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The first known use of inflammatory was circa 1711
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