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Provoke is a verb that means to give rise to a reaction or emotion in someone, usually unwelcome and negative; to deliberately incite annoyance or anger in someone; to arouse or instigate ideas or actions of another. Example sentences:

He uses that word just to provoke me because he knows that I hate to be called that.

The announcement will provoke a lot of dissatisfaction from the staff.

To provoke greater effort from the student, the teacher challenged him to succeed.

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