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inquisitor

 noun
     
Related topics: Christianity
in‧quis‧i‧tor [countable]
1 someone who is asking you a lot of difficult questions and making you feel very uncomfortable
2RRC an official of the Inquisition
—inquisitorial adjective
—inquisitorially adverb
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