Though-provoking vs Tantalizing - What's the difference?
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Teasing; tempting, but beyond reach.
* 1851 — , Ch. 133
*:...then it was that monomaniac Ahab, furious with this tantalizing vicinity of his foe, which placed him all alive and helpless in the very jaws he hated; frenzied with all this, he seized the long bone with his naked hands, and wildly strove to wrench it from its gripe.