Instigative and Stimulating

Instigative

Instigative adjective - Serving or likely to arouse a strong reaction.
Usage example: she is no stranger to controversy, having penned several instigative and inflammatory books attacking liberals
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Stimulating and instigative are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Stimulating" instead an adjective "Instigative".

Stimulating

Stimulating adjective - Serving or likely to arouse a strong reaction.
Usage example: an article containing a stimulating argument for raising, not lowering, the tax on gasoline

Instigative and stimulating are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Instigative" instead an adjective "Stimulating".

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