Index of English words, starting with "pr"

(1) - Provocation (n.) An appeal to a court. [A Latinism]
(2) - Provocation (n.) Such prior insult or injury as may be supposed, under the circumstances, to create hot blood, and to excuse an assault made in retort or redress.
(3) - Provocation (n.) Incitement; stimulus; as, provocation to mirth.
(4) - Provocation (n.) That which provokes, or excites anger; the cause of resentment; as, to give provocation.
(5) - Provocation (n.) The act of provoking, or causing vexation or, anger.

(1) - Provocative (n.) Anything that is provocative; a stimulant; as, a provocative of appetite.
(2) - Provocative (a.) Serving or tending to provoke, excite, or stimulate; exciting.

(1) - Provocativeness (n.) Quality of being provocative.

(1) - Provoke (v. i.) To appeal. [A Latinism]
(2) - Provoke (v. i.) To cause provocation or anger.
(3) - 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.