Exception
Provoking
Provoking adjective - Serving or likely to arouse a strong reaction.
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Exception and provoking are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Exception" instead a noun "Provoking".
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Tom and Jerry has Jerry provoking Tom for little to no reason at all and almost never gets punished for it, but one rare exception occurs in "The Million Dollar Cat", where Tom got tired of Jerry's shenanigans and attacked him even if doing so would cost him a million-dollar inheritance.
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