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Instigate :: Instigate (v. t.) To goad or urge forward; to set on; to provoke; to incite; -- used chiefly with reference to evil actions; as to instigate one to a crime.

Aggression :: Aggression (n.) The first attack, or act of hostility; the first act of injury, or first act leading to a war or a controversy; unprovoked attack; assault; as, a war of aggression. Aggressions of power..

Ridicule :: Ridicule (n.) Remarks concerning a subject or a person designed to excite laughter with a degree of contempt; wit of that species which provokes contemptuous laughter; disparagement by making a person an object of laughter; banter; -- a term lighter than derision.

Provokable :: Provokable (a.) That may be provoked.

Quarrelsome :: Quarrelsome (a.) Apt or disposed to quarrel; given to brawls and contention; easily irritated or provoked to contest; irascible; choleric.

Provoke :: Provoke (v. i.) To cause provocation or anger.

Resentful :: Resentful (a.) Inclined to resent; easily provoked to anger; irritable.

Overprovoke :: Overprovoke (v. t.) To provoke excessively.

Fiery :: Fiery (a.) Passionate; easily provoked; irritable.

Aggravate :: Aggravate (v. t.) To exasperate; to provoke; to irritate.

Droll :: Droll (superl.) Queer, and fitted to provoke laughter; ludicrous from oddity; amusing and strange..

Bait :: Bait (v. t.) To provoke and harass; esp., to harass or torment for sport; as, to bait a bear with dogs; to bait a bull..

Long-suffering :: Long-suffering (n.) Bearing injuries or provocation for a long time; patient; not easily provoked.

Enrage :: Enrage (v. t.) To fill with rage; to provoke to frenzy or madness; to make furious.

Inflamed :: Inflamed (p. a.) Set on fire; enkindled; heated; congested; provoked; exasperated.

Provoke :: Provoke (v. i.) To appeal. [A Latinism.

Tempt :: Tempt (v. t.) To endeavor to persuade; to induce; to invite; to incite; to provoke; to instigate.

Provoke :: Provoke (v. t.) To call forth; to call into being or action; esp., to incense to action, a faculty or passion, as love, hate, or ambition; hence, commonly, to incite, as a person, to action by a challenge, by taunts, or by defiance; to exasperate; to irritate; to offend intolerably; to cause to retaliate..

Inflame :: Inflame (v. t.) To provoke to anger or rage; to exasperate; to irritate; to incense; to enrage.

Inflammable :: Inflammable (a.) Excitable; irritable; irascible; easily provoked; as, an inflammable temper..

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