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.
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151. The Columbine killings of 1999 failed to provoke any shift in Americans'attitudes to guns.
152. Although Japan has repeatedly in the Diaoyu Islands provocation, however not dare rushed to provoke and our fight no-win military conflict.
153. Don't throw one bone to two dogs; yoll'll only provoke a fight.
154. Since the eighteenth century, sex has not ceased to provoke a kind of generalized discursive erethism.
155. There are also critics' year-end lists -- and some indescribable chemistry that makes for a nice pairing between dark, cold weather and movies that provoke contemplation rather than shell shock.
156. The US Senate has agreed to American clause over fears it could provoke a trade war.
157. She often tried to provoke Darcy into disliking her guest.
158. On the contrary,[http://sentencedict.com/provoke.html] this method has the advantage of continually setting traps for these fellows which provoke them to untimely demonstrations of the asininity .
159. In France any mention of exercise tends to provoke a bemused reaction.
160. Everyone knows that the boss's wife is sharp - tongued, and no one dares provoke her.
161. For example anger may provoke violent feelings towards another, but generally people refrain from stabbing each other willy-nilly.
162. Deliberately provoke your adversary. Find something that makes them angry and keep wheedling away on this point until they lose their temper and so the argument.
163. I know of many systems of religion esteemed heathenish whose precepts fill the reader with shame, and provoke him to new endeavors, though it be to the performance of rites merely.
164. The rollerblading officers, who patrol the streets of Paris in blue uniforms, wearing knee and elbow pads and crash helmets, provoke mixed reactions among Parisians.
165. While theoretical discussions have covered a broad range of aspects, the three main issues debated are tendencies to provoke allergic reaction (allergenicity), gene transfer and outcrossing.
166. The discipline is a branch of psychophysics in that it is interested in the relation between sensory input stimuli and the behavioural or psychological response that they provoke.
167. Warren Harding's extramarital exertions would provoke titters only after his death, when a tell-all memoir by one of his mistresses, Nan Britton, boasted of assignations in a White House cloakroom.
168. Grandhi does not wish to provoke them any more than necessary.
169. What experimental procedure could provoke some people to profuse sweating and trembling, leaving 10% extremely upset, while others broke into unexplained hysterical laughter?
170. As part of their tactics, the opposition will try to provoke us.
171. But in some parts of the world, such as central Africa, mutations that result in albinism (or a significant depigmentation) of a baby can provoke fear and superstition and sometimes even infanticide.
172. The lesson that Huang Guangyu gives authority is, ace of so-called capital game, do not be in forever the market is maleficent provoke numerous anger.
173. Don't provoke me too far . My father started out as a desperado, nothing scares me.
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