Both Uses of
provoke
in
In Cold Blood
- The incident provoked her into doing what she had never done before-abandon her duties.†
Chpt 1 *provoked = caused (a reaction)
- The little building had been standing for more than a century, and seasonal changes provoked different symptoms of its antiquity: winter cold saturated the stone-and-iron fixtures, and in summer, when temperatures often hurtled over the hundred mark, the old cells were malodorous cauldrons.†
Chpt 4
Definition:
to cause a reaction — often an emotional reaction like anger, and sometimes done on purpose