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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91) Given China's massive military build-up, its lack of military transparency, and its often provocative external behavior, Beijing simply cannot be counted on to act responsibly as a global power.
92) In perhaps his most provocative remarks, Jacques praises China's communist leaders for their "remarkable perspicacity ... never allowing themselves to be distracted by short-term considerations".
93) It is however essential that I play out the string and not be provocative.
94) It also banned "morally provocative hosts and hostesses" and demanded that participants undergo stricter screening procedures and "be cautious before mouthing venturous remarks.
95) Rather, they work up to suicide through a series of provocative experiences, such as accidents, injuries, self-injury, eating disorders, and exposure to pain and suffering.
96) "Opium" is a provocative, sensual, and voluptuous fragrance which makes all your senses vibrate.
97) SEEING Red in China, a blog by an American teacher there, makes a provocative argument.
98) A number of rock stars from the 1950s and 1960s could have been mentioned as sex symbols, but none are quite as provocative as Mick Jagger.
99) Wow! she's got nerve wear that high - leg bathing suit. it's very provocative.
100) The pretty model looks very provocative in a transparent miniskirt.
101) Quartet form, with large bright red, full of provocative and sexy fragrance.
102) The singular storyline puts a twist on a hackneyed subject, providing fresh and provocative entertainment.
103) His provocative speech met with no response from the opposing party.
104) At first only one newspaper, Hankyoreh, regarded as a provocative gadfly, dared print them.
105) The "extremely provocative"findings "are consistent with what I have learned independently", says Jeffrey S. Kargel, a glaciologist at the University ofArizona, United States.
106) This is one of the themes of " Red Families v. Blue Families, " a provocative new book by two law professors, Naomi Cahn and June Carbone.
107) A 2006 study of youth athletes in Quebec City turned up the provocative finding that young, high-level swimmers wheezed and coughed far more often than young, indoor soccer players.
108) The provocative idea was posited by Vahe Gurzadyan of Yerevan Physics Institute in Armenia and celebrated theoretical physicist Roger Penrose of the University of Oxford, UK.
109) "It's very provocative, " says Lisa Monteggia, a neuroscientist at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, in Dallas. "It goes back to two schools of thought: Lamarck versus Darwin."
110) YOUTH(THROUGH TRANSLATOR): As long as the person who is in charge of national security behaves like a juvenile delinquent and carries on using provocative language, the trouble won't stop.
111) Leda and the Swan, a provocative nude, was probably destroyed by a shocked religious member of the French royal family.
112) Harry claims to be an anarchist but he's really only striking an attitude to be provocative.
113) Study Design. A cohort study of clinical outcomes of lumbar fusion patients with preoperative assessment of adjacent levels by provocative discography.
114) The singular storyline puts a twist on hackneyed subject, providing fresh and provocative entertainment.
115) And a provocative exhibition tries to unpick the myth about the world's most famous apeman.
115) Wish you can benefit from our online sentence dictionary and make progress every day!
116) Unless you are writing something very post-modernist – self-conscious, self-reflexive and "provocative" – be alert for possibilities of using plain familiar words in place of polysyllabic "big" words.
117) Women were thought to be more provocative of sinful deliberation if gussied up in snap, bows and frills.
118) Since its last short-range missile tests in early July, North Korea has refrained from taking any provocative actions, setting the stage for a possible return to six-nation talks.
119) This stunning and provocative period tale is adapted from the classic novel by William Makepeace Thackeray.
120) The North has claimed it has a nuclear arsenal and threatened war if the South carried out a military drill that Pyongyang deemed to be provocative.
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