Provoke vs Connoisseur - What's the difference?
provoke | connoisseur |
to cause someone to become annoyed or angry.
* Bible, Eph. vi. 4
to bring about a reaction.
* J. Burroughs
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(obsolete) To appeal.
A specialist of a given field whose opinion is valued; especially in one of the fine arts, or in a matter of taste
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As a verb provoke
is to cause someone to become annoyed or angry.As a noun connoisseur is
a specialist of a given field whose opinion is valued; especially in one of the fine arts, or in a matter of taste.provoke
English
Verb
(provok)- Don't provoke the dog; it may try to bite you.
- Ye fathers, provoke not your children to wrath.
- To the poet the meaning is what he pleases to make it, what it provokes in his own soul.
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- (Dryden)
Synonyms
* (bring about a reaction) bring about, discompose, egg on, engender, evoke, grill, incite, induce, inflame, instigate, invoke, rouse, set off, stir up, whip upDerived terms
* provocation * provocativeconnoisseur
English
Alternative forms
* connaisseurNoun
(wikipedia connoisseur) (en noun)- This, when it was brought to him, he drank slowly, like a connoisseur , lingering on the taste...