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.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| wiggle | to move to and fro with quick jerky or shaking motions : jiggle |
| accolade | a mark of acknowledgment : award |
| polyglot | one who is polyglot |
| manifold | marked by diversity or variety |
| opprobrium | something that brings disgrace |
| poultice | a soft usually heated and sometimes medicated mass spread on cloth and applied to sores or other lesions |
| rare | seldom occurring or found : uncommon |
| therapeutic | of or relating to the treatment of disease or disorders by remedial agents or methods : curative |
| burgeon | to send forth new growth (such as buds or branches) : sprout |
| outwit | to get the better of by superior cleverness : outsmart |