All provocation synonyms

noun provocation

• actuation — to incite or move to action; impel; motivate: actuated by selfish motives.
• melodrama — a dramatic form that does not observe the laws of cause and effect and that exaggerates emotion and emphasizes plot or action at the expense of characterization.
• carrot — Carrots are long, thin, orange-coloured vegetables. They grow under the ground, and have green shoots above the ground.
• flareup — a sudden flaring up of flame or light.
• affront — If something affronts you, you feel insulted and hurt because of it.
• actuations — to incite or move to action; impel; motivate: actuated by selfish motives.
• fuel — combustible matter used to maintain fire, as coal, wood, oil, or gas, in order to create heat or power.
• excitement — A feeling of great enthusiasm and eagerness.
• hang up — the way in which a thing hangs.
• wildness — living in a state of nature; not tamed or domesticated: a wild animal; wild geese.
• molestation — to bother, interfere with, or annoy.
• induction — the act of inducing, bringing about, or causing: induction of the hypnotic state.
• occasion — a particular time, especially as marked by certain circumstances or occurrences: They met on three occasions.
• irritation — the act of irritating or the state of being irritated.
• irking — to irritate, annoy, or exasperate: It irked him to wait in line.
• irksomeness — The state of being irksome; vexatiousness; tediousness; wearisomeness.
• last straw — the last of a succession of irritations, incidents, remarks, etc., that leads to a loss of patience, a disaster, etc.: He has been late before, but this is the last straw.
• impugnment — to challenge as false (another's statements, motives, etc.); cast doubt upon.
• defiance — Defiance is behaviour or an attitude which shows that you are not willing to obey someone.
• determinant — A determinant of something causes it to be of a particular kind or to happen in a particular way.
• activation — to make active; cause to function or act.
• arousal — Arousal is the state of being sexually excited.
• goad — a stick with a pointed or electrically charged end, for driving cattle, oxen, etc.; prod.
• awakening — the start of a feeling or awareness in a person
• goading — a stick with a pointed or electrically charged end, for driving cattle, oxen, etc.; prod.
• excruciation — Some excruciating pain.
• defy — If you defy someone or something that is trying to make you behave in a particular way, you refuse to obey them and behave in that way.
• niggling — petty; trivial; inconsequential: to quibble about a niggling difference in terminology.
• despites — in spite of; notwithstanding.
• baiting — food, or some substitute, used as a lure in fishing, trapping, etc.
• bedevilment — to torment or harass maliciously or diabolically, as with doubts, distractions, or worries.
• dare — If you do not dare to do something, you do not have enough courage to do it, or you do not want to do it because you fear the consequences. If you dare to do something, you do something which requires a lot of courage.
• intractability — not easily controlled or directed; not docile or manageable; stubborn; obstinate: an intractable disposition.
• harassment — the act or an instance of harassing, or disturbing, pestering, or troubling repeatedly; persecution: She sued her boss for sexual harassment.
• hangup — Alternative spelling of hang-up.
• annoyance — Annoyance is the feeling that you get when someone makes you feel fairly angry or impatient.
• invigoration — to give vigor to; fill with life and energy; energize.
• instigation — the act of instigating; incitement.
• incitation — to stir, encourage, or urge on; stimulate or prompt to action: to incite a crowd to riot.
• geese — a plural of goose.
• incentive — something that incites or tends to incite to action or greater effort, as a reward offered for increased productivity.
• aggravation — the act of aggravating, or making worse, or the condition of being aggravated
• incitement — the act of inciting.
• goose — any of numerous wild or domesticated, web-footed swimming birds of the family Anatidae, especially of the genera Anser and Branta, most of which are larger and have a longer neck and legs than the ducks.
• impulsion — the act of impelling, driving onward, or pushing.
• exasperation — A feeling of intense irritation or annoyance.
• motivation — the act or an instance of motivating, or providing with a reason to act in a certain way: I don't understand what her motivation was for quitting her job. Synonyms: motive, inspiration, inducement, cause, impetus.
• flare up — to burn with an unsteady, swaying flame, as a torch or candle in the wind.
• needling — a small, slender, rodlike instrument, usually of polished steel, with a sharp point at one end and an eye or hole for thread at the other, for passing thread through cloth to make stitches in sewing.
• enjoinder — A prohibition ordered by an injunction.