Mad
Mad verb - To make angry.
Usage example: her endless excuses for not doing the work madded her overburdened coworkers
Provoke
Both words in one sentence
- The Loonie: Masterweaver, who made a cybernetic mad scientist donkey that frequently does things which provoke face palms from the rest of the group.
- Is it playing with their emotions to provoke them to fight each other (thus causing Shizuru to go completely mad when she's rejected by Natsuki), or is it all a result of their normal psyches, just put under a lot of stress?
Source: Not Himself -
WRONG. Wheatley proceeds to go mad with power and GLaDOS's insults provoke him into a rage, causing him to dump you down into the very deepest, most forgotten levels of Aperture Science... where the game's biggest revelations yet await Chell and the player.
Source: Videogame / Portal 2
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