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Provocative Pronunciation

Pronounce Provocative as P R OW V OW K AH T IY V EH.

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    Provocative phonetic transcription:

    When you start learning English, it's important to become familiar with the typical sounds of the language. The best way to do this is by studying phonetics. Below is the UK transcription for the word 'provocative'. Get the right phonetic representation for any word using our free Phonetic Transcription Tool.

    • Traditional IPA representation of provocative: /proʊvoʊkætɪvɛ/
    • Modern IPA representation of provocative: /prɒvɒcætɪvɛ/

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    List of meaning for provocative

    tending to provoke or stimulate

    provocative(adj)

    serving or tending to provoke, excite, or stimulate; stimulating discussion or exciting controversy

    "a provocative remark"; "a provocative smile"; "provocative Irish tunes which...compel the hearers to dance"- Anthony Trollope

    provocative(adj)

    exciting sexual desire

    "her gestures and postures became more wanton and provocative"

    serving or likely to arouse a strong reaction

    a provocative editorial that sparked a heated discussion

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    provocative in sentence

    1. The plain jane wants to spice up her wardrobe with a few sexy dresses and provocative mini-skirts.

    2. When the editor read the provocative article which urged people to destroy government buildings, he insisted the writer redo the entire piece.

    3. Despite my rival’s provocative remarks, I refuse to get into a disagreement with her.

    4. Rather than start a debate, the teacher chose not to respond to the student’s provocative question on religion.

    5. Dr. Jones is popular because of the provocative topics he discusses on his television show.

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    Quotes and sayings containing the term provocative

    This is a provocative aggression aimed at derailing the peace process.

    – Lam Paul Gabriel

    The science is really well known, that's not a problem at all so it's nothing new to the tourism industry. It's nothing new to the scientific community at all. So it's really hard to see what's so provocative in that report.

    – Will Steffen

    Look, a rhetorical discussion about the cultural changes and whether we can hold anyone, male or female, to standards made for an interesting hour, made for an interesting rhetorical discussion, that's what you're supposed to do on talk radio. And if you're provocative when you do it, well, that's part of our job. I presume, you know, the people that are running with this story are looking for ratings as well. So, it's kind of sad that it's come back to this, but I guess I shouldn't be surprised.

    – Republican Rep. Jason Lewis

    But unlike the previous provocations, the fire was targeted and of high intensity, resulting in five soldiers being wounded, in case of further provocative actions ... (Ukrainian) weapons will be returned immediately to the place of their previous location.

    – Oleksander Turchynov

    Research clearly shows that these images have an influence on suicidal behaviors, but how this occurs is far more important to me, it is very possible that provocative experiences have a desensitizing effect that makes suicidal behaviors more likely.

    – Eric Beeson

    The mind like the tree of life is found in the inexplicable extricacies of Divine Ordinance only to be unearth by provocative thinking-perhaps our perception!

    – Ikogho David

    Free speech aside, why would anyone do something as provocative as hosting a ‘Muhammad drawing contest,’.

    – New York Times

    They've been, I guess, fairly increasingly consistent in their response to these but if I just got back to first principles...I just want to make sure that the U.S. Navy's approach has been consistent. We haven't done anything increasingly provocative or anything else.

    – John Richardson

    I have regretted them for many years since — not just because they were stupid, not at all funny, wildly insensitive, and certainly not provocative like I had hoped, but also because they don't reflect the person I am today or have been for some time.

    – Sean Gunn

    North Korea acts in a totally irresponsible and provocative way, so I can entirely understand the pressure South Korea feels to respond. But, we have to be bigger than the North Koreans and I would urge South Korea and other like-minded countries in the region to exercise restraint. We know that responding in this way is simply rising to the bait North Korea is presenting to us.

    – British Foreign Secretary Phillip Hammond

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