We’re providing answers for “Provoke” that match examples found in completed puzzles, helping you stay on track with options that are already tied to similar crossword content.
Likely Answers:
- IRK
- GOAD
- ENGENDER
- STIRUP
- AROUSE
- NEEDLE
- ROUSE
- INCUR
- INCITE
- BAIT
- INCENSE
- EGGON
- ELICIT
- INFLAME
- INSTIGATE
- RILE
- VEX
- RILEUP
- TEASE
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