Difference between Provoke and Beset

PROVOKE vs BESET: VERB

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.
To incite to anger or resentment.
To stir to action or feeling.
To bring about deliberately; induce.
To give rise to; bring about.

To attack from all sides.
To trouble persistently; harass. : attack.
To hem in; surround.
To stud, as with jewels.
To set upon on all sides; to perplex; to harass; -- said of dangers, obstacles, etc.
To hem in; to waylay; to surround; to besiege; to blockade.
To set or stud (anything) with ornaments or prominent objects.
To occupy; to employ; to use up.

To set or place.
To set or place upon; distribute over; bestud; besprinkle: now only in the perfect participle.
To come upon or against; set upon in attack, or so as to perplex, endanger, or hem in; press upon severely, vigorously, or from all sides: as, to beset one with blows or with entreaties.
To employ; spend; use up.
Assail or attack on all sides: "The zebra was beset by leopards"
To become; suit; look well on.

Kick up, Hassle, Plague, Fire, Beset, Molest, Chivvy, Raise, Harass, Kindle, Stimulate, Enkindle, Evoke, Elicit, Arouse

Dogged, Bedeviled, Molest, Chevy, Plagued, Chivy, Set upon, Chevvy, Harass, Harry, Hassle, Encrust, Provoke, Chivvy, Plague

Harry, Hassle, Plague, Fire, Beset, Molest, Chivvy, Raise, Harass, Kindle, Stimulate, Enkindle, Evoke, Elicit, Arouse

Ravaged, Buffeted, Dogged, Bedeviled, Plagued, Molest, Chevy, Set upon, Harass, Harry, Hassle, Encrust, Provoke, Chivvy, Plague

Elizabethan Court was beset with faction and intrigue.
BIP is beset by a number of difficulties.
That matter is beset with a thousand uncertainties.
Several problems beset the interpretation of famine studies.
We are beset by enemies on all sides!
They will so beset a man with qmuestions.
It is beset with multiple defects and problems.
But the year was also beset by challenges.
Idaho was beset with backlash over the decision.
We have understood that the challenges that beset Zambia are not different from those that beset other countries.