Object

• outrage: His choreography for The Rite of Spring was to provoke even greater outrage.

• controversy: Religion, by its very nature, provokes controversy.

• reaction: Or are you just trying to provoke some angry reaction from the male posters?

Noun phrase with adjective complement

• such: At home, carrying out normal activities did not provoke symptoms such as chest pain or breathlessness.

Modifying Another Word

• inevitably: To worship according to one vision of man, and to live according to another, will inevitably provoke conflict in the soul.

• easily: Be aware of yellow box junctions and ' keep clear ' areas: blocking these can so easily provoke an argument.

• sometimes: Of course, that might sometimes provoke an unpleasant response.

• deliberately: Rankin was convinced that Franklin D. Roosevelt had deliberately provoked the Japanese attack.

• merely: A nationwide campaign of protests and petitioning merely provoked the enraged authorities to deport four of the delegation's members to Malta.

Used with why or when

• when: This subspecies has rather distinctive plumage - click here for pictures, and the reaction they provoked when we first published them.

Preposition: in

• part: This charter was provoked in part by a previous piece of herbal legislation produced by his father, Henry VII.

Preposition: by

• stimulus: Pain and Depression Pain is a subjective experience that is characteristically provoked by peripheral stimuli, such as heat or cold.