provocation

fuel, firing, combustible., [solid fuels] coal, wallsend, anthracite, culm, coke, carbon, charcoal; turf, peat, firewood, bobbing, faggot, log; cinder (products of combustion); ingle, tinder, touchwood; sulphur, brimstone; incense; port-fire; fire-barrel, fireball, brand; amadou, bavin; blind coal, glance coal; German tinder, pyrotechnic sponge, punk, smudge [U. S.]., brand, torch, fuse; wick; spill, match, light, lucifer, congreve, vesuvian, vesta, fusee, locofoco; linstock., candle (luminary); oil (grease).

carbonaceous; combustible, inflammable.

timeliness, occasion, opportunity, opening, room; event (eventuality); suitable season, proper season, suitable time, proper time; high time; opportuneness; tempestivity., crisis, turn, juncture, conjuncture; crisis, turning point, given time., nick of time; golden opportunity, well timed opportunity, fine opportunity, favorable opportunity, opening; clear stage, open field, window of opportunity, fair field; mollia tempora; fata Morgana; spare time (leisure).

seize (take) an opportunity, use [more] an opportunity, give [more] an opportunity, use an occasion; improve the occasion., suit the occasion (be expedient)., seize the occasion, strike while the iron is hot, battre le fer sur l'enclume, make hay while the sun shines, seize the present hour, take time by the forelock, prendre la balle au bond.

opportune, timely, well-timed, timeful, seasonable., providential, lucky, fortunate, happy, favorable, propitious, auspicious, critical; suitable; obiter dicta.

opportunely; in proper course, in due course, in proper season, in due season, in proper time, in due time; for the nonce; in the nick of time, in the fullness of time; all in good time; just in time, at the eleventh hour, now or never., by the way, by the by; en passant, a propos; pro re nata, pro hac vice; par parenthese, parenthetically, by way of parenthesis, incidentally; while speaking of, while on the subject; extempore; on the spur of the moment, on the spur of the occasion; on the spot (early).

excitation of feeling; mental excitement; suscitation, galvanism, stimulation, piquancy, provocation, inspiration, calling forth, infection; animation, agitation, pertubation; subjugation, fascination, intoxication; enravishment; entrancement, high pressure., unction, impressiveness, trail of temper, casus belli; irritation (anger); passion (state of excitability); thrill (feeling); repression of feeling; sensationalism, yellow journalism.

excite, affect, touch, move, impress, strike, interest, animate, inspire, impassion, smite, infect; stir the blood, fire the blood, warm the blood; set astir; wake, awake, awaken; call forth; evoke, provoke; raise up, summon up, call up, wake up, blow up, get up, light up; raise; get up the steam, rouse, arouse, stir; fire, kindle, enkindle, apply the torch, set on fire, inflame., stimulate; exsuscitate; inspirit; spirit up, stir up, work up; infuse life into, give new life to; bring new blood, introduce new blood; quicken; sharpen, whet; work upon (incite); hurry on, give a fillip, put on one's mettle., fan the fire, fan the flame; blow the coals, stir the embers; fan into a flame; foster, heat, warm, foment, raise to a fever heat; keep up, keep the pot boiling; revive, rekindle; rake up, rip up., stir the feelings, play on the feelings, come home to the feelings; touch a string, touch a chord, touch the soul, touch the heart; go to one's heart, penetrate, pierce, go through one, touch to the quick; possess the soul, pervade the soul, penetrate the soul, imbrue the soul, absorb the soul, affect the soul, disturb the soul., absorb, rivet the attention; sink into the mind, sink into the heart; prey on the mind; intoxicate; overwhelm, overpower; bouleverser, upset, turn one's head., fascinate; enrapture (give pleasure)., agitate, perturb, ruffle, fluster, shake, disturb, startle, shock, stagger; give one a shock, give one a turn; strike all of a heap; stun, astound, electrify, galvanize, petrify., irritate, sting; cut to the heart, cut to the quick; try one's temper; fool to the top of one's bent, pique; infuriate, madden, make one's blood boil; lash into fury (wrath)., be excited; flush up, flare up; catch the infection; thrill (feel); mantle; work oneself up; seethe, boil, simmer, foam, fume, flame, rage, rave; run mad (passion).

excited; wrought up, up the qui vive, astir, sparkling; in a quiver, in a fever, in a ferment, in a blaze, in a state of excitement; in hysterics; overwrought; hot, red-hot, flushed, feverish; all of a twitter, in a pucker; with quivering lips, with tears in one's eyes., flaming; boiling over; ebullient, seething; foaming at the mouth; fuming, raging, carried away by passion, wild, raving, frantic, mad, distracted, beside oneself, out of one's wits, ready to burst, bouleverse, demoniacal., lost, eperdu, tempest-tossed; haggard; ready to sink.

till one is black in the face.