Emotions

Synonyms for provoking

The synonym for provoking recorded in this bank is agitating, in the sense "causing or tending to cause anger or resentment". Below it sits the sentence that fixes that meaning, the same sentence with the swap made, and the words that only look close.

1 synonym · Tier 4, High Camp · 1 sense · adjective

The synonym for provoking

agitatingadjective, in the sense "causing or tending to cause anger or resentment"

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The senseadjectiveTier 4, High CampEmotions

causing or tending to cause anger or resentment

A provoking delay at the airport.

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The true synonym

agitating

Same sentence, swapped: A agitating delay at the airport.

Close but different

Distractors, not synonyms. This entry has no written reason line yet, so read them against the sentence and the sense above.

intoxicating
tickling
urgent

Where provoking turns up in the game

provoking is the word under test in one puzzle, at Tier 4, High Camp. It is never used as a wrong tile elsewhere in the bank, so every board it appears on is a board it can win.

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This page is built from Open English WordNet 2025, with the sense, the sentence, the tier and the near misses read by a human in the July 2026 audit. No sentence here is generated at deploy time.

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