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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conjure | to charge or entreat earnestly or solemnly |
homily | a usually short sermon |
conclave | a private meeting or secret assembly |
animadversion | a critical and usually censorious remark |
ewe | the female of the sheep especially when mature |
incredulous | unwilling to admit or accept what is offered as true : not credulous : skeptical |
enormity | an outrageous, improper, vicious, or immoral act |
satyr | a sylvan deity in Greek mythology having certain characteristics of a horse or goat and fond of Dionysian revelry |
pious | marked by or showing reverence for deity and devotion to divine worship |
extrinsic | not forming part of or belonging to a thing : extraneous |