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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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| 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 |
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| depreciate | to lower in honor or esteem |
| trite | hackneyed or boring from much use : not fresh or original |
| deranged | mentally unsound : crazy |