Similar words: provocation, evocative, vocation, avocation, invocation, equivocation, provoke, indicative. Meaning: [prə'vɑkətɪv /-'vɒk-] 
adj. 1. serving or tending to provoke, excite, or stimulate; stimulating discussion or exciting controversy 2. exciting sexual desire.
adj. 1. serving or tending to provoke, excite, or stimulate; stimulating discussion or exciting controversy 2. exciting sexual desire. 
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1) He doesn't really mean that—he's just being deliberately provocative.
2) His provocative words only fuelled the argument further.
3) The minister's provocative remarks were widely reported in the press.
4) She was sitting in a highly provocative pose.
5) His behavior was called provocative and antisocial.
6) She was accused of being deliberately provocative .
7) She slowly leaned forward in a provocative way.
8) She wore a very provocative dress.
9) She was dressed in a highly provocative way.
10) His provocative words only fueled the argument further.
11) In a deliberately provocative speech, she criticised the whole system of government.
12) This book is designed to be provocative rather than a watertight piece of economic analysis.
13) Some adolescents might be more sexually mature and provocative than others.
14) The programme will take a detailed and provocative look at the problem of homelessness.
15) Andy Warhol's provocative slogan, 'Everyone will be famous for fifteen minutes', became a sixties byword.
16) That optimism was immediately contradicted by Haider's provocative comments.
17) New York City is notching provocative successes.
18) Roman, as always, was being arrogant[sentencedict.com], deliberately provocative.
19) And that stupidly provocative remark hadn't helped.
20) It was detailed, provocative and refreshingly easy to read.
21) Locals regarded it as a provocative incursion.
22) These images are provocative, too, darting from murdered bodies to couples in bed.
23) Women in a riot of beads, bandannas and provocative bustles followed to centre nave.
24) Peggy ScottAdams's provocative ballad is hitting radio audiences like an emotional bomb.
25) Probably one of the most provocative young personalities in television today.
26) A satin ribbon lay across her throat,(http://sentencedict.com/provocative.html) provocative as if she had set it there herself.
27) The book's provocative statements have led to it being banned in some schools.
28) He has made a string of outspoken and sometimes provocative speeches in recent years.
29) Also excluded are the currently fashionable workshops and seminars on such provocative topics as diversity, group sensitivity, and gender politics.
30) It premiered in 1986, and is as taut now, as touching, witty, and provocative as it seemed then.
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