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Incendiary

Any person who maliciously sets fire to a building or other valuable or other valuable property.

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Combustible 84% connected

Capable of taking fire and burning; apt to catch fire; inflammable.

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Combustible 84% connected

Capable of taking fire and burning; apt to catch fire; inflammable.

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Provocative 84% connected

Serving or tending to provoke, excite, or stimulate; exciting.

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Provocative 84% connected

Serving or tending to provoke, excite, or stimulate; exciting.

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Bomb 76% connected

A great noise; a hollow sound.

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Criminal 76% connected

Guilty of crime or sin.

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Crook 76% connected

A bend, turn, or curve; curvature; flexure.

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Felon 76% connected

A person who has committed a felony.

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Malefactor 76% connected

An evil doer; one who commits a crime; one subject to public prosecution and punishment; a criminal.

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Outlaw 76% connected

A person excluded from the benefit of the law, or deprived of its protection.

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Arson 66% connected

The malicious burning of a dwelling house or outhouse of another man, which by the common law is felony; the malicious and voluntary firing of a buil…

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Inflammatory 92% connected

Tending to inflame, kindle, or irritate.

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Seditious 92% connected

Of or pertaining to sedition; partaking of the nature of, or tending to excite, sedition; as, seditious behavior; seditious strife; seditious words.

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