Vocabulary : Provocative to Provostship

Provocative : Serving or tending to provoke, excite, or stimulate; exciting. ;; Anything that is provocative; a stimulant; as, a provocative of appetite.
Provocativeness : Quality of being provocative.
Provocatory : Provocative.
Provokable : That may be provoked.
Provoke : To call forth; to call into being or action; esp., to incense to action, a faculty or passion, as love, hate, or ambition; hence, commonly, to incite, as a person, to action by a challenge, by taunts, or by defiance; to exasperate; to irritate; to offend intolerably; to cause to retaliate. ;; To cause provocation or anger. ;; To appeal. [A Latinism]

Provoked : of Provoke
Provokement : The act that which, provokes; one who excites anger or other passion, or incites to action; as, a provoker of sedition.
Provoking : of Provoke ;; Having the power or quality of exciting resentment; tending to awaken passion or vexation; as, provoking words or treatment.
Provost : A person who is appointed to superintend, or preside over, something; the chief magistrate in some cities and towns; as, the provost of Edinburgh or of Glasgow, answering to the mayor of other cities; the provost of a college, answering to president; the provost or head of certain collegiate churches. ;; The keeper of a prison.
Provostship : The office of a provost.

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