provocative
reaction-calling or deliberately stirring
Roots
Other words with the voc / vok root
- advocate: to support or argue for
- equivocal: ambiguous or deliberately unclear
- equivocate: to speak ambiguously or avoid commitment
- evoke: to call forth or bring to mind
- revoke: to call back or cancel
- vocabulary: the words known or used by someone
- vocal: relating to the voice
Pro-voc-ative: it calls a reaction forth.
The essay's provocative claim made the class argue for an hour.
The sentence pokes the room and waits for a response.