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provokingadjective serving or likely to arouse a strong reactionthe host's provoking opinions are the reason why people tune in to his radio talk show in the first place charged, edgy, exciting, inciting, instigating, instigative, piquing, provocative, stimulating explosive, fiery, incendiary, inflammatory, triggeringinducing, inspirational, inspiring, motivating, motivational, motivativejeering, taunting, teasingactivating, energizing, galvanizing, quickening, vitalizingangering, enraging, maddening, upsettingaggravating, annoying, bothersome, exasperating, galling, irksome, irritating, pesky, vexatious, vexing noninflammatory subduing to rouse to strong feeling or actionhis teasing finally provoked her to anger bees generally will not sting unless they are provoked arousing, encouraging, exciting, firing (up), impassioning, inciting, instigating, moving, piquing, revving (up), sparking, stimulating, stirring fanning, igniting, inflaming(also enflaming), kindling, triggeringactivating, animating, driving, energizing, galvanizing, inducing, inspiring, keying (up), motivating, motiving, pumping up, quickening, setting off, vitalizingabetting, fermenting, fomenting, raising, whipping (up)angering, enraging, maddening, upsettingjeering, taunting, teasingaggravating, annoying, bothering, exasperating, galling, getting, irritating, vexing building a fire under calming, soothing, subduing, tranquilizing(also tranquillizing)appeasing, mollifying, pacifying, placating to bring (something volatile or intense) into beingrankings that are sure to provoke an argument among film buffs abetting, brewing, fermenting, fomenting, inciting, instigating, picking, raising, stirring (up), whipping (up) advancing, cultivating, encouraging, forwarding, fostering, furthering, nourishing, nurturing, promoting, sowing, stimulatingdetonating, setting, setting off, triggeringexciting, galvanizing, inflaming(also enflaming), inspiring, motivating, rousingactivating, energizing, enlivening, firing, invigorating, jazzing (up), livening (up), pepping (up), quickening, stimulating, vitalizing setting in motion bridling, checking, constraining, curbing, discouraging, holding, inhibiting, regulating, reining (in), restraining, tamingallaying, calming, quieting, settling, soothing, stilling, subduing, tranquilizing(also tranquillizing) in 1642 |