As for the civil station itself, it provokes no emotion.
E. M. Forster, A Passage to India
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Dictionary
Merriam-Webster
— to call forth (a feeling, an action, etc.) : EVOKE
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Macmillan
— to deliberately try to make someone angry
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Collins
— If you provoke someone, you deliberately annoy them and try to make them behave aggressively.
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Other Word Forms
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1 use of ‘provokes’ in A Passage to India, by E. M. Forster