Animal Term for Purposely Blaming the Wrong Person

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Question is: Animal Term for Purposely Blaming the Wrong Person

and the answer is: SCAPEGOAT

Word Meaning:

SCAPEGOAT — In the Mosaic Day of Atonement ritual, a goat symbolically imbued with the sins of the people, and sent out alive into the wilderness while another was sacrificed.

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