Synonym: aggravation, incitation, incitement, irritation. Similar words: vocation, avocation, invocation, equivocation, location, improvisation, evocative, provoke. Meaning: [‚prɑvə'keɪʃn /‚prɒ-] 
n. 1. unfriendly behavior that causes anger or resentment 2. something that incites or provokes; a means of arousing or stirring to action 3. needed encouragement.
n. 1. unfriendly behavior that causes anger or resentment 2. something that incites or provokes; a means of arousing or stirring to action 3. needed encouragement. 
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61. Yet, during the day, there were no demonstrations by settlers and little provocation.
62. Also receiving determinate prison sentences are those whose offence is reduced to manslaughter on a combined plea of provocation and diminished responsibility.
63. Up in Sheffield a protest rally against police provocation and brutality was turning ugly.
64. Although there was no question of rising to it, the means of provocation were ingenious.
65. The appeal of the private army and the provocation it offered to others were eliminated as easily as that.
66. In the extreme case this is done without provocation and through pure malice.
67. In their majority verdict they also expressed the view that the crime was committed under provocation.
68. Why can't people understand what a fantastic achievement two-and-a-half years of ceasefire has been, given the ceaseless provocation?
69. They did not react to this provocation.
70. She angers with little or no provocation.
71. Why should I sit down under her continued provocation?
72. Great was her provocation, great her love.
73. Cars no longer catch fire at the slightest provocation.
74. Fly into a rage at the slightest provocation.
75. I can bear a considerable amount of provocation.
76. He keeps his temper despite the provocation.
77. She sometimes angers with little or no provocation.
78. He would whomp the kids at the slightest provocation.
79. Iago . What an eye she has! methinks It'sounds a parley of provocation.
80. Her words carried the ring of deliberate provocation,(sentencedict.com/provocation.html) challenging the Islamists to put a fatwa on her and raise a sword to behead her.
81. Airway responsiveness and reversibility of airway obstruction were determined in 31 patients with asthma by bronchial histamine provocation test and bronchodilator test.
82. Chen officially confirmed that the test of a new generation Chinese military jet during Gates' visit to China was a J-20 Stealth fighter, but said the scheduling was not a provocation.
83. Her plea of guilty to manslaughter through provocation was rejected.
84. The Deputy Commander has condemned this weekend's protest as deliberate provocation.
85. "It's not an act of provocation, " said Kenza Drider[sentencedict.com], wearing a full-face veil on the train.
86. Some of the border guards, who had patrolled the barrier day in day out, saw it as a provocation.
87. A survey published Friday in France found that 54 percent of French believe that reprinting the images in the European press amounted to unnecessary provocation.
88. One shot by a jumpy 18-year-old in the ill-trained factory militia or one step too far by an angry marcher – or a Stasi provocation – could have triggered an explosion.
89. The Lord saw this , and spurned them Because of the provocation of His sons and daughters.
90. Chen's action was an obvious and willful provocation and a high - stake gamble.
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