Provoke crossword clue 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 and 9 letters

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Synonyms and Definitions

IRK

• Synonyms: gall
• Definition: Annoy or bother

GOAD

• Synonyms: goading, needle, prick, prod, prodding, spur, spurring, urging

ENGENDER

• Synonyms: beget, breed, bring forth, father, generate, get, mother, sire, spawn

AROUSE

• Synonyms: awake, awaken, brace, bring up, call down, call forth, come alive, conjure, conjure up, elicit, energise, energize, enkindle, evoke, excite, fire, invoke, kindle, perk up, put forward, raise, rouse, sex, stimulate, stir, turn on, wake, wake up, waken, wind up
• Definition: Evoke (emotions, feelings, and responses)

NEEDLE

• Synonyms: acerate leaf, goad, phonograph needle

ROUSE

• Synonyms: agitate, arouse, bestir, charge, charge up, commove, drive out, force out, rout out
• Definition: Start to be active

INCUR

• Synonyms: find, obtain, receive

INCITE

• Synonyms: actuate, egg on, instigate, motivate, move, prompt, propel, set off, stir up
• Definition: Provide a motivation for action

BAIT

• Synonyms: cod, come-on, decoy, hook, lure, rag, rally, razz, ride, sweetener, tantalise, tantalize, taunt, tease, twit
• Definition: anything that acts as a lure or attraction

INCENSE

• Synonyms: cense, exasperate, infuriate, thurify
• Definition: a material that emits a pleasant scent when ignited

ELICIT

• Synonyms: draw out, educe, extract

INFLAME

• Synonyms: conflagrate, fire up, heat, ignite

INSTIGATE

• Synonyms: incite, inspire
• Definition: Incite or arouse

RILE

• Synonyms: annoy, bother, chafe, devil, get at, get to, gravel, irritate, nark, nettle, roil, vex
• Definition: Provoke irritation in; unsettle, particularly through small annoyances.

VEX

• Synonyms: amaze, baffle, beat, bewilder, disturb, dumbfound, flummox, mystify, nonplus, perplex, pose, puzzle, raise up, rile, shake up, stick, stupefy, worry
• Definition: Provoke irritation in; disrupt, particularly through small annoyances.

TEASE

• Synonyms: annoyer, badger, bait, beleaguer, bug, card, coquette, flirt, fluff, loosen, minx, pester, prickteaser, ribbing, tantalization, tease apart, teaser, teasing, vamp, vamper, vexer