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instigation, n. 1. inciting, actuating, provoking, poking, prodding, pricking, thrusting, goading, prompting, spurring, egging on; stimulating, motivating, inspiring, rallying, awakening, vivifying, bestirring, encouraging, abetting, emboldening, inducing, impelling, constraining, pressing, pushing, moving, forcing; persuading, inclining, predisposing, influencing, lobbying, coaxing, plying, swaying; tempting, inveigling, beguiling, enticing, wheedling, luring.
2. fomenting, agitating, exciting, arousing, rousing, whipping up, working up, stirring up, winding up, inflaming, enflaming, firing up, kindling, enkindling, touching off, Inf. psyching up.
3. incitement, incitation, actuation, provocation, initiation; stimulation, animation, infection, invigora-tion, motivation, inspiration, vivification; inducement, impulsion; persuasion, inclination, predisposal, influence; temptation, inveiglement, beguilement, allurement, enticement, blandishment, Obs. allectation.
4. fomentation, agitation, excitement, Rare, suscita-tion, perturbation; demagoguery, sensationalism, rabble-rousing, soap-box oratory.
5. incentive, stimulus, provocative, fillip, motive; press, goad, spur, prick, prod, jolt, jog, poke, thrust; impulse, urge, drive, push, itch, desire; dictate, call.

instill, v. 1. infuse, saturate, imbue, permeate, immerse, steep, familiarize with; inculcate, infix, implant, engraft, ingrain, fill, impregnate, penetrate, transfuse, inject.
2. teach, educate, school, tutor, train, instruct, enlighten, inform, guide, guide step by step; indoctrinate, drill, prime, ground, qualify, bring along, coach, exercise; preach, propagandize, insinuate, sow the seeds of, lead along the path.
3. influence, infect, affect, bias, incline; initiate, inspire, breathe into, show the way, inflame, arouse; fire, charge, stir, stimulate, animate.

instillation, n. 1. infusion, transfusion, insertion; saturation, permeation, infiltration, immersion, submersion, steeping; dissemination, unfoldment, revelation, familiarization; inculcation, implantation, impregnation, penetration.
2. instruction, teaching, edification, education, tutelage, schooling; preparation, introduction, training; indoctrination, persuasion, propagandism, proselyt-ism, insinuation.

instinct¹, n. 1. impulse, inclination, tendency, leaning, propensity, proclivity, penchant, predisposition.
2. talent, gift, ability, capacity, aptitude; flair, knack, bent; trait, characteristic, faculty, habit.
3. intuition, prompting, sixth sense; sense, feel, awareness; empathy, sensitivity, feeling; heart, soul.

instinct², adj. Usu.

instinct with imbued, inspired, informed, impregnated, pregnant; filled, infused; abounding in, rife, replete, alive with, SI. lousy with,

instinctive, adj. 1. inborn, inbred, innate, ingener-ate; immanent, indwelling, inherent, indigenous, intrinsic; intuitive, intuitional, untaught, involuntary, unpremeditated, noninferential.
2. impulsive, automatic, immediate, spontaneous, direct, on-the-spot; emotional, visceral, intestinal, Inf. seat of the pants, Inf. played by ear, SI. gut.
3. native, natural, natural-born; congenital, hereditary, inherited, in the blood, in the family; subjective, constitutional, idiosyncratic; ingrained, engrained, inwrought, enwrought.

institute, v, 1. found, establish, start, give rise to, create, originate, bring into being, bring about; set up, organize, develop.
2. inaugurate, break ground, lay the foundation, lay the first stone; introduce, launch, broach, usher in; initiate, actuate, instigate, set in motion, start the ball rolling, take the first step, take the initiative, take the plunge, make a start, break the ice; open, pioneer, lead off; beget, engender, father, conceive, give birth to, sow the seeds of, produce, occasion, bring on.