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scaremonger

Noun CEFR C1

Definitions

Someone who spreads worrying rumours or needlessly alarms people.

Equivalents

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Polskipanikarz
Українськапанікер

Examples

“I have⟳ refrained from giving actual names and dates, for obvious reasons, and have⟳ therefore been compelled, even at the risk⟳ of being again denounced as a scaremonger, to present⟳ the facts in the form⟳ of fiction—fiction which, I trust⟳, will point⟳ its own⟳ patriotic moral.”

CEFR level

C1
Advanced
This word is part of the CEFR C1 vocabulary — advanced level.
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