Difference between Raises and Provoke

RAISES vs PROVOKE: NOUN

Construct, build, or erect
Evoke or call forth, with or as if by magic
Raise the level or amount of something
In bridge: bid (one's partner's suit) at a higher level
Bet more than the previous player
Create a disturbance, especially by making a great noise
Raise from a lower to a higher position
Bring up
Put forward for consideration or discussion
Pronounce (vowels) by bringing the tongue closer to the roof of the mouth
Cause to be heard or known; express or utter
Activate or stir up
Establish radio communications with
Multiply (a number) by itself a specified number of times: 8 is 2 raised to the power 3
Bring (a surface, a design, etc.) into relief and cause to project
Collect funds for a specific purpose
Cause to puff up with a leaven
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of raise.
Invigorate or heighten
Give a promotion to or assign to a higher position
Cause to assemble or enlist in the military
Increase
Move upwards
Cultivate by growing, often involving improvements by means of agricultural techniques
Cause to become alive again
Raise in rank or condition
Put an end to
Call forth (emotions, feelings, and responses)

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

Produce, Resurrect, Enhance, Provoke, Arouse, Levy, Promote, Erect, Rise, Grow, Lift, Climb, Heighten, Hike, Elevate

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

Recruit, Elicit, Resurrect, Enhance, Provoke, Arouse, Levy, Promote, Erect, Rise, Grow, Climb, Heighten, Hike, Elevate

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

Customer satisfaction raises a number of important questions.
It also raises the morale of its employees.
Which information raises the most significant privacy concerns?
ITR raises a number of interesting methodological issues.
Its presence raises the vibrations of an area.
This all raises a serious question for me.
This hypothetical situation raises a series of questions.
For Coady, the ubiquity of testimony raises the question of justification; for Shapin it raises the question of management.
You talked about how being in this game really raises the standard, raises the bar for your program.
The thought of a psychopathic partner, who raises children with you, about whom nothing raises suspicions, is disturbing.