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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..

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.

Odium :: Odium (n.) The quality that provokes hatred; offensiveness.

Hector :: Hector (n.) A bully; a blustering, turbulent, insolent, fellow; one who vexes or provokes..

Provokement :: Provokement (n.) The act that which, provokes; one who excites anger or other passion, or incites to action; as, a provoker of sedition..

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

Anger :: Anger (v. t.) To excite to anger; to enrage; to provoke.

Niobe :: Niobe (n.) The daughter of Tantalus, and wife of Amphion, king of Thebes. Her pride in her children provoked Apollo and Diana, who slew them all. Niobe herself was changed by the gods into stone..

Resentment :: Resentment (n.) In a bad sense, strong displeasure; anger; hostility provoked by a wrong or injury experienced..

Good-natured :: Good-natured (a.) Naturally mild in temper; not easily provoked.

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

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

Displease :: Displease (v. t.) To make not pleased; to excite a feeling of disapprobation or dislike in; to be disagreeable to; to offend; to vex; -- often followed by with or at. It usually expresses less than to anger, vex, irritate, or provoke..

Provocation :: Provocation (n.) That which provokes, or excites anger; the cause of resentment; as, to give provocation..

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

Stimulant :: Stimulant (n.) That which stimulates, provokes, or excites..

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.

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

Invidious :: Invidious (a.) Likely to incur or produce ill will, or to provoke envy; hateful; as, invidious distinctions..

Provoked :: Provoked (imp. & p. p.) of Provok.

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