Synonym: aggravate, anger, annoy, antagonize, arouse, disturb, enrage, exasperate, excite, incense, infuriate, irk, irritate, nettle, peeve, pique, rile, ruffle, stir, taunt, vex. Antonym: appease. Similar words: invoke, approve, provide, province, improved, approval, provider, provided. Meaning: [prə'vəʊk] 
v. 1. call forth (emotions, feelings, and responses) 2. evoke or provoke to appear or occur 3. provide the needed stimulus for 4. annoy continually or chronically.
v. 1. call forth (emotions, feelings, and responses) 2. evoke or provoke to appear or occur 3. provide the needed stimulus for 4. annoy continually or chronically. 
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61. Sometimes they even seem to provoke the trigger actions deliberately.
62. Images such as this were made to provoke a visceral response.
63. Sensational news stories are more likely to provoke outrage than academic work or serious social comment.
64. Some work, some do not work and provoke further active reflection.
65. This highly readable account deserves a wide audience and should provoke serious debate.
66. You know what my reasons have been in the past: I just don't want to provoke interest in myself.
67. Contesting that remark would only provoke an angry response from the boy.
68. Large firms have the expectation that prolonged recession will provoke assistance from at least some parts of the bureaucracy.
69. Nothing could be more calculated to provoke fresh accusations or evidence than a personal attack on Cathy Woodhead.
70. At recess, when one child tried to provoke him,[http://Sentencedict.com] Scott went over to play with another group of children.
71. Military planners and diplomats worry that the North's increasing distress over food supplies could provoke it to invade the South.
72. Either Quinn knew just what he was doing or he was going to provoke the kidnapper into putting down the phone.
73. Or was he just trying to provoke her into an argument for the sheer hell of it?
74. I would like to attempt to provoke you into asking what can be done with what we've got.
75. They also readily acknowledge that the symbols are not as important as the impressions, imaginings and emotions they provoke.
76. He seemed to her like the kind of man who loved to provoke reaction.
77. Persuasive communication - communication designed to provoke a specific response - has been much researched and many factors may come into play.
78. His physical proximity invariably seemed to provoke in her sensations with which she was quite unfamiliar.
79. She walked with a nose-up sprocket-hipped model-girl gait calculated to provoke maximum envy and resentment.
80. The Government is also understood to be divided over whether the increase in base rates will provoke a recession.
81. So ingrained is the reflex of contention that even seemingly unobjectionable ideas provoke it.
82. Although they produce the strongest reactions(sentencedict.com), owls are not the only animals to provoke mobbing reactions.
83. The mere appearance of a uniform is often enough to provoke a hail of stones, even a riot.
84. The nerve impulses in these specialised fibres enter the central nervous system and provoke: A. Local reflexes in muscles.
85. I religiously told Jim about each of Neil's presents, desperately hoping to provoke some sort of response.
86. The response depends critically on the particular experimental method used to provoke it.
87. A Conservative candidate in such circumstances was likely to provoke hostilities very easily.
88. Conversely, pursuing a mundane, poorly paid job or no job at all may provoke a sense of alienation from society.
89. This is a good game to both give enjoyment and to provoke some thought.
90. Its long-term effect however was to provoke Edinburgh employers into various devices to evade the high piece-work rates stipulated by the Interlocutor.