Provokes is valid Scrabble Word

Is provokes a scrabble word?
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8 letters word
17 points in Scrabble
19 points in WWF

Definitions for PROVOKES in dictionary:

VERB:

PROVOKE, to arouse to anger or sexual desire
stimulate or give rise to (a reaction or emotion, typically a strong or unwelcome one) in someone
stimulate or incite (someone) to do or feel something, especially by arousing anger in them
deliberately make (someone) annoyed or angry

OTHER DEFINITIONS:

to incite to anger or resentment

Words related to PROVOKES

provoke16 provoked18 provoking19

Words that contain PROVOKES

unprovokes19

How to use PROVOKES in a sentence

Wealth never provokes covetousness, since no member is ever allowed to be poor.
This passage certainly provokes an application to Lord Burghley, and was probably intended for him.
But with that poor little Maurice, the merest trifle, such as four cherries instead of three, provokes indigestion.
Almost any substance held in the mouth provokes the flow of saliva by mechanical irritation.
Hume, Gibbon, Hallam, and Macaulay, Sismondi, Guizot, and Michelet, all have in their characters something which invites and provokes opposition.
He, he, I swear though, your raillery provokes me to a smile.
That contained in the great mass, only provokes a smile.
The very title-page provokes a comparison between the Gil Blas of Le Sage, and a string of romantic adventures, by Mr.
Then I like, when my mind and heart are full, and I cannot open the budget before him, to evaporate upon paper, which provokes no tart reply.
But earnest repetition compels attention, and attention arouses interest, and interest provokes zeal.

The important thing about a picture, however, is not how it is painted, but whether it provokes aesthetic emotion.
It has been realised always to some extent that the significance of art depends chiefly on the emotion it provokes, that works are more important than theories.
What is it that provokes his dislike or hostility? Here again we must look closely.
This is why the appointment of Cassio provokes him.
Man or maid sleeping in the open air provokes your tiptoe curiosity.
The mention of them but provokes a smile or awakens surprise.
He is unable to withstand the emotional shock which the realization of his deed provokes, breaks down under the stress, and develops a mental disorder.
His very name provokes in countless millions a reverent tenderness of emotion usually associated only with the most sacred and intimate of human relationships.
His quarrel with orthodoxy neither alarms nor provokes the modern reader.
And yet what provokes one is the feeling that an artist would have made a sketch of it somehow.
Their attitude provokes some astonishment, however, when one thinks of the conversation at the banquet, and of the awkward and inconsistent remarks the dame must have uttered.
And now what provokes me more than anything else is that the Match is broke off, and all my Labour thrown away.
Because the liver is very hot, and with its heat helps digestion, and provokes appetite.
Dingwall took to bed and died, but the suggestion that the fox not only likes being hunted, but provokes it as a form of healthy exercise, is invaluable.
There is something in the monotonous vibration of the train, and the recurring click of the wheels against the end of the rails, that provokes melancholy.
The old Sabbath question provokes a fresh tilt with a synagogue ruler.
The engraving and painting of the hieroglyphics were resumed with success, and carried out with a minuteness and accuracy that provokes the admiration of the beholder.
The arrogance of their pretensions in a manner provokes and challenges us to an inquiry into their foundation.
He rubs and rouses us to activity, drags us to the open air, puts us on a glowing chase, provokes us to race and climb with him till we also are thoroughly alive.
He points out first how certainly that disposition provokes retaliation.

Similar words containing PROVOKE without suffix s

provoke16 provoked18 provoker17 provokers18 unprovoke18 unprovoked20 unprovokes19 provokement22 provokements23 unprovokedly25

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