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 |
|---|---|
| presumptuous | overstepping due bounds (as of propriety or courtesy) : taking liberties |
| obsolete | no longer in use or no longer useful |
| culvert | a transverse drain |
| astral | of, relating to, or coming from the stars |
| elicit | to call forth or draw out (something, such as information or a response) |
| gull | any of numerous long-winged web-footed aquatic birds (subfamily Larinae of the family Laridae) |
| sectarian | of, relating to, or characteristic of a sect or sectarian |
| leonine | of, relating to, suggestive of, or resembling a lion |
| servile | of or befitting a menial position |
| nirvana | the final beatitude (see beatitude |