EVOKING

Call forth (emotions, feelings, and responses)

Example: "Arouse pity"

• arouse  6
• elicit  8
• enkindle  13
• fire  7
• kindle  11
• provoke  16
• raise  5

• create  8
• make  10

• strike a chord
• touch a chord
• ask for
• invite  9
• • draw  8
  • rekindle  13
  • infatuate  12
  • fire up
  • heat  7
  • ignite  7
  • inflame  12
  • stir up
  • wake  11
  • excite  15
  • shake  12
  • stimulate  11
  • stir  4
  • excite  15
  • anger  6
  • discomfit  17
  • discompose  17
  • disconcert  15
  • untune  6
  • upset  7
  • shame  10
  • bruise  8
  • hurt  7
  • injure  13
  • offend  13
  • spite  7
  • wound  9
  • overcome  15
  • overpower  17
  • overtake  15
  • overwhelm  20
  • sweep over
  • whelm  13
  • interest  8
  • whelm  13
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Evoke or provoke to appear or occur

Example: "Her behavior provoked a quarrel between the couple"

• call forth
• kick up
• provoke  16

• cause  7
• do  3
• make  10

• pick  12

Deduce (a principle) or construe (a meaning)

Example: "We drew out some interesting linguistic data from the native informant"

• draw out
• educe  8
• elicit  8
• extract  16

Summon into action or bring into existence, often as if by magic

Example: "Raise the specter of unemployment"

• arouse  6
• bring up
• call down
• call forth
• conjure  16
• conjure up
• invoke  13
• put forward
• raise  5
• stir  4

• call up
• summon  10

• anathemise
• anathemize
• bedamn  11
• beshrew  15
• • curse  7
  • imprecate  15
  • maledict  13
  • bless  7
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Call to mind

Example: "This remark evoked sadness"

• paint a picture
• suggest  9

• evince  11
• express  16
• show  10

• reek  8
• smack  13
• smell  7
• imply  12
• • incriminate  15
  • inculpate  13
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