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# provocation

«provocation» in Mova's school dictionary: **something done or said on purpose to make someone angry…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (provocation, provocations)

### meaning for a pupil

1) Provocation is something done or said on purpose to make someone angry or to make them react. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/provocation/#m1)

2) A provocation is one such action. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/provocation/#m2)

3) «Without provocation» means without any reason. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/provocation/#m3)

### sense in the lessons

In playground and safety lessons it explains that teasing and name-calling can be provocation, and that you choose how to react. In stories and news it tells the reader why a fight started. Phrases: «without provocation», «under provocation», «the slightest provocation».

### examples

- He hit the boy without any provocation. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/provocation/#x1)
- Don't react to provocation — walk away. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/provocation/#x2)
- She gets angry at the slightest provocation. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/provocation/#x3)
- The insults were a deliberate provocation. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/provocation/#x4)
- The dog bit the man without provocation. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/provocation/#x5)
- Under provocation, he stayed calm. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/provocation/#x6)
- Name-calling is provocation. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/provocation/#x7)
- The army saw the move as a provocation. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/provocation/#x8)
- The Eagle gave the first provocation in seizing upon and in eating the young ones of the Beetle. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/provocation/#x9)

### note

Verb: provoke; adjective: provocative. Spelling: provoCation (c), though provoKe has k. Provocation does not make violence right.

### In the corpora

- [Surely there are mockers with me, and mine eye abideth in their provocation.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/JOB.428/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «provocation» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/provocation/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.