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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91. Any sense that directorates are a mechanism to control and constrain doctors is likely to provoke problems.
92. Morris's ideas still provoke tension in the Clinton White House, even if Morris is absent from the inner circle.
93. That accounted for its stridency and its determined effort to provoke alarm.
94. These telephone calls provoke long and furious rows between Mr Smith and his second wife.
95. The guards in and around the prison deliberately provoke the political prisoners.
96. Sneers, deliberate and calculated to provoke a response that would betray his position.
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97. But enough investment-grade credits have declined in quality to provoke fears that big lenders may be damaged.
98. If power interests are threatened, then new models of conformity may merely provoke new forms of deviance.
99. To confront that reality some sorry, drunken night on the shore of an Arizona lake might provoke any of 100 reactions.
100. Hayden helped provoke the late Richard J.. Daley into a temper tantrum that turned the 1968 convention into a street brawl.
101. A test ban that could not inspire confidence would undermine stability and might even provoke a new arms race.
102. Rapid changes will provoke counterbalancing actions.
103. Recession and rising unemployment always provoke calls for protectionism.
104. She's got a quick temper – don't provoke her.
105. Tactile and auditory stimuli provoke convulsions with opisthotonos.
106. Annoy irritate bother irk vex provoke aggravate peeve rile.
107. I said [ did ] nothing to provoke him.
108. Such tendentious statements are likely to provoke strong opposition.
109. Tactile and auditory stimuli provoke convulsions with opposthotonis.
110. If you provoke the dog, it will attack you.
111. Don't provoke him to anger.
112. Don't provoke or tease the animals in the cage.
113. You'd better not provoke that fellow.
114. What was Rani doing in that hotel room and was it enough to provoke murder?
115. The texts make for fascinating reading, and provoke some good discussions of the cliched, "Where were you when it happened?"
116. Hard water contains high concentrations of minerals and other substances that may provoke allergic reaction.
117. Vermicelli noodles were first brought from Italy, where the food was in 'great vogue'; it was chiefly used in soups and pottages, 'to provoke venery' or sexual gratification.
118. The date was the 79th anniversary of the Mukden incident, a plot by Japanese Imperial Army officers that helped provoke the Japanese invasion of Manchuria.
119. Tackling him would provoke a bloody backlash of suicide bombers.
120. The Met’s trustees were afraid it would provoke public outrage and Bryson Burroughs, its director, thought Picasso a madman.