Is provoke a good word

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The writer is a business psychotherapist and author of ‘The Man Who Mistook His Job for His Life’ We too often fail to manage job endings well. The consequences not only affect the person leaving, but ...

God alone can change the heart, yet he gives his blessing to the good lessons and examples of parents and answers their prayers. And ye fathers, provoke not your children to wrath "Neither by words; ...

How do you know someone’s vegan? Don’t worry; they’ll tell you. The punch line to the punch line, though, is that they very deliberately may not. Vegans and vegetarians are aware of their reputation ...

At the midyear mark, we put the spotlight on movies big (Top Gun: Maverick), small (Marcel The Shell) and Everything Everywhere in between ...

No matter how brutal or erudite a written editorial may be, it cannot drive home what an unforgettable little drawing and a few words can in a fraction of a second.

It’s easier to define missions and goals that sound good and do not provoke negative thoughts ... not clearly recognize the challenge and the threats, one that uses fancy words to mask the lack of ...

Word has not been heard of the Islamiyya pupils ... They know abducting pupils from Christian schools will provoke reactions and deepen the religious tension and recriminations in the country.

At a juncture when global issues are becoming more and more prominent, regional crises are emerging one after another, so it is more than a pity that the two highest-level summits of the West view ...

The Scottish National Party’s approach to independence can be roughly summarised as follows: we only have to be lucky once, you have to be lucky every time. Having failed to win the referendum ...