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Here are some synonyms for the word provoke from the

Oxford American Writer's Thesaurus

provokeverb1 the plan has provoked outrage: arouse, produce, evoke, cause,give rise to, occasion, call forth, elicit, induce, excite, spark off,touch off, kindle, generate, engender, instigate, result in, lead to, bring on, precipitate, prompt, trigger; literary beget.ANTONYMS allay.2 she was provoked into replying: goad, spur, prick, sting, prod, egg on, incite, rouse, stir, move, stimulate, motivate, excite,inflame, work/fire up, impel. ANTONYMS deter.3 he wouldn't be provoked: annoy, anger, incense, enrage, irritate,infuriate, exasperate, madden, nettle, get/take a rise out of,ruffle, ruffle someone's feathers, make someone's hackles rise;harass, harry, plague, molest; tease, taunt, torment; rub the wrong way; informal peeve, aggravate, hassle, miff, needle,rankle, ride, rile, get, bug, make someone's blood boil, get under someone's skin, get in someone's hair, get/putsomeone's back up, get someone's goat, wind up. ANTONYMSpacify, appease.

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