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.
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31) A fascinating and provocative timetable spanning nearly 200 million years has emerged.
32) Over the past decade, he has made statements, often provocative, about a wide variety of issues.
33) Poetry is provocative because it goes beyond prose which is descriptive.
34) Why did he have to make such a provocative remark?
35) Sometimes, I grant you, some one offers a provocative thought.
36) A final provocative statement from a life-long prankster, a prodigal son of Harvard, it seems so fitting.
37) But I also love artists like Alfred Quir z that are satirical and provocative.
38) Water, water everywhere ... I cast out into the calmer seas beyond, whilst they continue their provocative tramp around us.
39) At a time when change was almost synonymous with evil, or at least decline, this was indeed provocative.
40) But in the context of the jail, republicans considered them symbolic and provocative and, therefore, they could create trouble.
41) However, his deeply felt and meticulously researched rhetoric conveyed in all his books is hard hitting, provocative and sagacious.
42) These were a survival from his army days and, therefore, some way from being sexually provocative.
43) Some of the disturbances were triggered by the provocative actions of local Whigs and Dissenters.
44) These supposedly extreme propositions are much better understood as provocative statements of a political position than as semantic claims.
45) Nor does he worry about offending people with his provocative images.
46) A few of its witticisms are unnecessarily provocative and should be censored.
47) Photomontage was an immensely suitable medium for the provocative imagery of Dada.
48) Then she got out and strolled up to the gate with her most provocative walk.
49) His belt buckle was digging into the soft skin of her stomach and she moved agitatedly, unconsciously provocative.
50) The plan is provocative, but it is not reaping fulfilling results this week.
51) Our novel observations are provocative and carry enormous public health implications.
52) Recently a self-styled young adults' lobby called Third Millennium hit on a provocative way to explain the impending Medicare crisis.
53) Every press release should include a quotable, provocative statement from an officer or committee member of the organization involved.
54) Elias, has been seriously threatened, because of its provocative color.
55) Blier also makes good use of some provocative Barry White songs,(www.Sentencedict.com) and the leads are excellent.
56) The magazine is full of pictures of partially dressed women in provocative poses.
57) Here, like to many other ancient sites mentioned above, there is a provocative stillness.
58) Lind has written a polemic, provocative and engaging and infuriating to read, and useful when it blows up old myths.
59) One of the most provocative findings in recent years has been the degree of parallel organization hidden within individual anatomical regions.
60) For similar reasons there was a ban on republicans wearing shamrocks as loyalists considered them provocative.
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