Invoke vs. Provoke

Invokeverb

(transitive) To call upon (a person, especially a god) for help, assistance or guidance.

Invokeverb

(transitive) To appeal for validation to a (notably cited) authority.

Invokeverb

(transitive) To conjure up with incantations.

Invokeverb

(transitive) To bring about as an inevitable consequence.

Invokeverb

(transitive) To solicit, petition for, appeal to a favorable attitude.

Invokeverb

To cause (a program or subroutine) to execute.

Invokeverb

To call on for aid or protection; to invite earnestly or solemnly; to summon; to address in prayer; to solicit or demand by invocation; to implore; as, to invoke the Supreme Being, or to invoke His and blessing.

Invokeverb

evoke or call forth, with or as if by magic;

Invokeverb

cite as an authority; resort to;

Invokeverb

request earnestly (something from somebody); ask for aid or protection;

Provokeverb

(transitive) To cause someone to become annoyed or angry.

Provokeverb

(transitive) To bring about a reaction.

Provokeverb

(obsolete) To appeal.

Provokeverb

To call forth; to call into being or action; esp., to incense to action, a faculty or passion, as love, hate, or ambition; hence, commonly, to incite, as a person, to action by a challenge, by taunts, or by defiance; to exasperate; to irritate; to offend intolerably; to cause to retaliate.

Provokeverb

To cause provocation or anger.

Provokeverb

To appeal. [A Latinism]

Provokeverb

call forth (emotions, feelings, and responses);

Provokeverb

call forth;

Provokeverb

provide the needed stimulus for

Provokeverb

annoy continually or chronically;