GRE Word List
PROVOCATIVE
serving or tending to provoke, excite, or stimulate
The meaning of the word provocative is serving or tending to provoke, excite, or stimulate.
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hale | free from defect, disease, or infirmity : sound |
digression | the act or an instance of leaving the main subject in an extended written or verbal expression of thought : the act or an instance of digressing in a discourse or other usually organized literary work |
tarry | to delay or be tardy in acting or doing |
forebears | ancestor |
lull | to cause to sleep or rest : soothe |
lag | one that lags or is last |
hover | to position (a computer cursor) over something (such as an image or icon) without selecting it |
depreciate | to lower in honor or esteem |
trite | hackneyed or boring from much use : not fresh or original |
deranged | mentally unsound : crazy |