Provoke has 2 syllables and the stress is on the second syllable.
| # | Sentence | |
|---|---|---|
| 1. | It would provoke a saint. | |
| 2. | The cat will scratch you if you provoke it. | |
| 3. | A facet of genius is the ability to provoke scandals. | |
| 4. | Only the assumption that the reader - I better say: the prospective reader, because for the moment there is not the slightest prospect, that my writing could see the lights of publicity, - unless it miraculously left our endangered fortress Europe and brought a hint of the secrets of our loneliness to those outside; - I beg to be allowed to begin anew: only because I anticipate the wish to be told casually about the who and what of the writer, I send some few notes on my own individuum out before these openings, - of course not without the awareness that exactly by doing so I might provoke doubts in the reader, that he is in the right hands, which is to say: if I, from all my being, am the right man for a task to which maybe the heart pulls me more than any qualifying relation in character. | |
| 5. | Don't provoke that wasp. | |
| 6. | Do not provoke that wasp. | |
| 7. | His long absences were starting to provoke suspicion. | |
| 8. | He was always trying to provoke an argument. | |
| 9. | She was always trying to provoke me into saying something I would regret later. | |
| 10. | Don't provoke me. |