provocative
excitive
stir up
whip up
irritative
quicken
piquant
salty
exciting
work
cue
bracing
goad
kindle
aggravate
concern
rip into
incentive
enturbulate
fuel
chafe
controversialness
interest
caffeinate
rouse
preoccupy
rub someone the wrong way
underscore
point
fire up
ignite
intrigue
get at
inflame
castigatory
heat
wake
controversiality
involve
set off
rub up on
divert
interruptive
instigate
face
bepommel
erotetic
amp up
bearbait
incite
obscurant
provocate
foment
sustain
comb someone's hair the wrong way
whet
get into
pick
bring out
stimulant
stimulation
stimulus
emphasization
disputatiousness
input
polemics
honorific
brisk
impassionate
motivational
interesting
interventive
move
excitance
extorsive
excitancy
rousing
AIDA
appreciative
deepen
earnest
charged
do someone's head in
call forth
snowflakery
un-
bring
phrasemongery
offendedness
angersome
tease
furiousness
provocative
excitive
irritative
piquant
salty
exciting
bracing
incentive
castigatory
interruptive
erotetic
obscurant
honorific
brisk
motivational
interesting
interventive
extorsive
rousing
appreciative
earnest
charged
angersome
fuel
controversialness
point
controversiality
concern
face
stimulant
stimulation
stimulus
emphasization
disputatiousness
input
polemics
excitance
excitancy
AIDA
snowflakery
phrasemongery
offendedness
furiousness
stir up
whip up
quicken
work
cue
goad
kindle
aggravate
concern
rip into
enturbulate
chafe
interest
caffeinate
rouse
preoccupy
rub someone the wrong way
underscore
fire up
ignite
intrigue
get at
inflame
heat
wake
involve
set off
rub up on
divert
instigate
bepommel
amp up
bearbait
incite
provocate
foment
sustain
comb someone's hair the wrong way
whet
get into
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bring out
impassionate
move
deepen
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tease
verb
- To inspire or stimulate.
- To inspire or stimulate (an action, a feeling, etc.).
- To stimulate or assist the fermentation of (an alcoholic beverage, dough, etc.).
- To grow bright; to brighten.
- To take on a state of activity or vigour comparable to life; to be excited or roused.
- To put (someone or something) in a state of activity or vigour comparable to life; to excite, to rouse.
- Of a pregnant woman: to first feel the movements of the foetus, or reach the stage of pregnancy at which this takes place; of a foetus: to begin to move.
- To give life; to make alive.
- To apply quicksilver (mercury) to (something); to combine (something) with quicksilver; to quicksilver.
- To make (something) quicker or faster; to hasten, speed up.
- To come back to life, to receive life.
- To become quicker or faster.
- Of an alcoholic beverage, dough, etc.: to ferment.
- To give life to (someone or something never alive or once dead); to animate, to resurrect, to revive.
noun
verb
- provoke or excite
- exert oneself by doing mental or physical work for a purpose or out of necessity; work
- be employed
- have an effect or outcome; often the one desired or expected
- perform as expected when applied
- shape, form, or improve a material
- give a workout to
- proceed along a path
- operate in a certain place, area, or specialty
- proceed towards a goal or along a path or through an activity
- move in an agitated manner
- cause to happen or to occur as a consequence
- cause to work
- prepare for crops
- behave in a certain way when handled
- have and exert influence or effect
- operate in or through
- cause to operate or function
- gratify and charm, usually in order to influence
- make something, usually for a specific function
- move into or onto
- to mix into a homogeneous mass
- use or manipulate to one's advantage
- find the solution to (a problem or question) or understand the meaning of
- cause to undergo fermentation
- go sour or spoil
- arrive at a certain condition through repeated motion
noun
- activity directed toward making or doing something
- a product produced or accomplished through the effort or activity or agency of a person or thing
- the occupation for which you are paid
- applying the mind to learning and understanding a subject (especially by reading)
- (physics) a manifestation of energy; the transfer of energy from one physical system to another expressed as the product of a force and the distance through which it moves a body in the direction of that force
- a place where work is done
- the total output of a writer or artist (or a substantial part of it)
verb
- To spark or provoke.
- To form into a cue; to braid; to twist.
- To give someone a cue signal.
- To take aim on the cue ball with the cue and hit it.
noun
- A straight tapering stick used to hit the balls in various games.
- A marker or signal that triggers something, such as the start of an audio recording.
- The last words of a play actor's speech, serving as an intimation for the next actor to speak; any word or words which serve to remind an actor to speak or to do something; a catchword.
- The name of the Latin-script letter Q.
- An action or event that is a signal for somebody to do something.
- A hint or intimation.
verb
- To engage by feeling or sentiment; to interest.
- To relate or belong to; to have reference to or connection with; to affect the interest of; to be of importance to.
- To make somebody worried.
noun
- The placement of interest or worry on a subject.
- The expression of solicitude, anxiety, or compassion toward a thing or person.
- That which affects one’s welfare or happiness. A matter of interest to someone.
- A worry; a sense that something may be wrong; an identification of a possible problem.
- A business, firm or enterprise; a company.
- Any set of information that affects the code of a computer program.
verb
- To excite passion or anger in; to fret; to irritate.
- To have a feeling of vexation; to be vexed; to fret; to be irritated.
- To be worn by rubbing.
- To excite heat in by friction; to rub in order to stimulate and make warm.
- To fret and wear by rubbing.
- To rub; to come together so as to wear by rubbing; to wear by friction.
noun
verb
noun
- a sense of concern with and curiosity about someone or something
- a reason for wanting something done
- the power of attracting or holding one's attention (because it is unusual or exciting etc.)
- a fixed charge for borrowing money; usually a percentage of the amount borrowed
- (law) a right or legal share of something; a financial involvement with something
- (usually plural) a social group whose members control some field of activity and who have common aims
- a diversion that occupies one's time and thoughts (usually pleasantly)
verb
- To provoke (someone) to action or anger.
- To wake (someone) or be awoken from sleep, or from apathy.
- To cause, stir up, excite (a feeling, thought, etc.).
- To cause to start from a covert or lurking place.
- To pull by main strength; to haul.
- To tell off; to criticise.
noun
- An arousal.
- The sounding of a bugle in the morning after reveille, to signal that soldiers are to rise from bed, often the rouse.
- A carousal; a festival; a drinking frolic.
- An official ceremony over drinks.
- Wine or other liquor considered an inducement to mirth or drunkenness; a full glass; a bumper.
noun
- a style in speech or writing that arrests attention and has a penetrating or convincing quality or effect
- a geometric element that has position but no extension
- the precise location of something; a spatially limited location
- a brief version of the essential meaning of something
- an isolated fact that is considered separately from the whole
- a specific identifiable position in a continuum or series or especially in a process
- an instant of time
- the object of an activity
- a V shape
- a very small circular shape
- the unit of counting in scoring a game or contest
- a promontory extending out into a large body of water
- a distinct part that can be specified separately in a group of things that could be enumerated on a list
- an outstanding characteristic
- sharp end
- any of 32 horizontal directions indicated on the card of a compass
- a linear unit used to measure the size of type; approximately 1/72 inch
- one percent of the total principal of a loan; it is paid at the time the loan is made and is independent of the interest on the loan
- a punctuation mark (.) placed at the end of a declarative sentence to indicate a full stop or after abbreviations
- a V-shaped mark at one end of an arrow pointer
- the dot at the left of a decimal fraction
- the property of a shape that tapers to a sharp tip
- a distinguishing or individuating characteristic
- the gun muzzle's direction
- a wall socket
- a contact in the distributor; as the rotor turns its projecting arm contacts them and current flows to the spark plugs
verb
- indicate a place, direction, person, or thing; either spatially or figuratively
- be oriented
- direct into a position for use
- direct the course; determine the direction of travelling
- be a signal for or a symptom of
- sail close to the wind
- mark (Hebrew words) with diacritics
- mark with diacritics
- mark (a psalm text) to indicate the points at which the music changes
- be positionable in a specified manner
- intend (something) to move towards a certain goal
- indicate the presence of (game) by standing and pointing with the muzzle
- give a point to
- repair the joints of bricks
verb
- To arouse the interest of; to fascinate.
- To have clandestine or illicit intercourse.
- To conceive or carry out a secret plan intended to harm; to form a plot or scheme.
- To fill with artifice and duplicity; to complicate.
noun
- A complicated or clandestine plot or scheme intended to effect some purpose by secret artifice; conspiracy; stratagem.
- The plot of a play, poem or romance; the series of complications in which a writer involves their imaginary characters.
- Clandestine intercourse between persons; illicit intimacy; a liaison or affair.
verb
noun
- a form of energy that is transferred by a difference in temperature
- the presence of heat
- the sensation caused by heat energy
- the trait of being intensely emotional
- applies to nonhuman mammals: a state or period of heightened sexual arousal and activity
- a preliminary race in which the winner advances to a more important race
- utility to warm a building
noun
- A mode of regard, whether favourable or unfavourable; favour or anger.
- A person; the self; (reflexively, objectifying) oneself.
- The front part of the head of a human or other animal, featuring the eyes, nose, and mouth, and the surrounding area.
- A headlining wrestler with a persona embodying heroic or virtuous traits and who is regarded as a "good guy", especially one who is handsome and well-conditioned; a baby face.
- The width of a pulley, or the length of a cog from end to end.
- The mouth.
- The side of the card that shows its value (as opposed to the back side, which looks the same on all cards of the deck).
- One's facial expression.
- A distorted facial expression; an expression of displeasure, insult, etc.
- A familiar or well-known person; a member of a particular scene, such as the music or fashion scene.
- The front surface of a bat.
- The amount expressed on a bill, note, bond, etc., without any interest or discount; face value.
- Shameless confidence; boldness; effrontery.
- Any surface, especially a front or outer one.
- The frontal aspect of something.
- The numbered dial of a clock or watch; the clock face.
- The part of a golf club that hits the ball.
- Public image; outward appearance.
- Presence; sight; front.
- An aspect of the character or nature of someone or something.
- Any of the flat bounding surfaces of a polyhedron; more generally, any of the bounding pieces of a polytope of any dimension.
- The directed force of something.
- Makeup; one's complete facial cosmetic application.
- The head of a lion, shown face-on and cut off immediately behind the ears.
- A typeface.
- Good reputation; standing, in the eyes of others; dignity; prestige. (See lose face, save face).
verb
- To make the surface of (anything) flat or smooth; to dress the face of (a stone, a casting, etc.); especially, in turning, to shape or smooth the flat (transverse) surface of, as distinguished from the cylindrical (axial) surface.
- To have the front in a certain direction.
- To arrange the products in (a store) so that they are tidy and attractive.
- To be presented or confronted with; to have in prospect.
- To deal with (a difficult situation or person); to accept (facts, reality, etc.) even when undesirable.
- To cause (something) to turn or present a face or front, as in a particular direction.
- To have as an opponent.
- To position oneself or itself so as to have one's face closest to (something).
- To have its front closest to, or in the direction of (something else).
- To be the batsman on strike.
- To line near the edge, especially with a different material.
- To cover in front, for ornament, protection, etc.; to put a facing upon.
- To cover with better, or better appearing, material than the mass consists of, for purpose of deception, as the surface of a box of tea, a barrel of sugar, etc.
verb
- To encourage or sanction (something).
- To provide for or nourish.
- To maintain, or keep in existence.
- To allow, accept, or admit (e.g. an objection or motion) as valid.
- To keep from falling; to bear; to uphold; to support.
- To confirm, prove, or corroborate; to uphold.
- To aid, comfort, or relieve; to vindicate.
- To experience or suffer (an injury, etc.).
noun
verb
- To become involved or interested in (a discussion, issue, or activity).
- To enter (an unfavourable state).
- To interrogate in order to arrive at a deeper understanding.
- To move into (an object), such that one ends up inside it.
- To put on (an item of clothing).
- To cause to behave uncharacteristically; to possess.
- To reach into or interact with (an object).
verb
- provoke
- select carefully from a group
- look for and gather
- harass with constant criticism
- remove in small bits
- remove unwanted substances from, such as feathers or pits
- pilfer or rob
- pay for something
- pull lightly but sharply with a plucking motion
- attack with or as if with a pickaxe of ice or rocky ground, for example
- hit lightly with a picking motion
- eat intermittently; take small bites of
noun
- the person or thing chosen or selected
- the quantity of a crop that is harvested
- the best people or things in a group
- the yarn woven across the warp yarn in weaving
- a small thin device (of metal or plastic or ivory) used to pluck a stringed instrument
- a thin sharp implement used for removing unwanted material
- a heavy iron tool with a wooden handle and a curved head that is pointed on both ends
- a basketball maneuver; obstructing an opponent with one's body
- the act of choosing or selecting
verb
- To elicit, evoke, or emphasize a particular quality.
- Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see bring, out.
- To place (something new for public sale) on the market; roll out.
- To make a shy person more confident.
- To cause a visible symptom such as spots or a rash
- To introduce (a young woman) formally into society.
- To introduce an individual to gay life and traditions.
verb
- To excite to action by the presentation of motives; to rouse by representation, persuasion, or appeal; to influence.
- To cause to change place or posture in any manner; to set in motion; to carry, convey, draw, or push from one place to another
- To arouse the feelings or passions of; especially, to excite to tenderness or compassion, to excite (for example, an emotion).
- To change residence, for example from one house, town, or state, to another; to go and live at another place. See also move out and move in.
- To request an action from the court.
- To transfer (a piece) from one space or position on the board to another.
- To sell or market (especially physical inventory or illicit drugs).
- To change place or posture; to go, in any manner, from one place or position to another.
- To propose; to recommend; specifically, to propose formally for consideration and determination, in a deliberative assembly; to submit
- To act; to take action; to begin to act
noun
- The event of changing one's residence.
- A change in strategy.
- A round, in which each player has a turn.
- The act of moving a token on a gameboard from one position to another according to the rules of the game.
- The act of moving; a movement.
- An act for the attainment of an object; a step in the execution of a plan or purpose.
- A transfer, a change from one employer to another.
- A formalized or practiced action used in athletics, dance, physical exercise, self-defense, hand-to-hand combat, etc.
verb
- To make more poignant or affecting; to increase in degree
- To make deep or deeper
- To make more sound or heavy.
- To become lower in tone
- To make darker or more intense; to darken
- To become deeper
- To become more intimate.
- To make lower in tone
- To become darker or more intense
- To become more thorough or extensive.
- To make more thorough or extensive.
- To become more sound or heavy.
- To make more intimate.
prefix
- intensifying a verb that already suggests opposition or removal
- do the opposite of, reverse (a specified action)
- contrary to or contrasted against traditional norms; unconventional; alternative
- Used to form temporary names of elements (such as unbiunium) whose existence has been predicted, and have not yet been given a trivial name.
- absent; lacking; not; negative
- deprive of, release from, free from, remove from, extract from
- not
- Used to form large numbers as the first in the sequence.
verb
- attract the attention of
- take something or somebody with oneself somewhere
- cause to come into a particular state or condition
- cause to happen or to occur as a consequence
- go or come after and bring or take back
- bring into a different state
- be accompanied by
- advance or set forth in court
- bestow a quality on
- be sold for a certain price
- induce or persuade
verb
- To provoke or disturb; to annoy.
- To separate the fibres of (a fibrous material).
- To poke fun at, either cruelly or affectionately.
- To entice, tempt.
- To show as forthcoming, in the manner of a teaser.
- To comb (originally with teasels) so that the fibres all lie in one direction.
- To manipulate or influence the behavior of, especially by repeated acts of irritation.
- To backcomb.
noun
English words for 'serving or tending to provoke, excite, or stimulate; stimulating discussion or exciting controversy'
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